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Lahaina’s iconic Indian banyan tree has been off limits to visitors since the August 2023 wildfire tore through the historic community, but some Maui County officials are hopeful that they might soon ...

LAHAINA, Hawaii (AP) — When a deadly wildfire tore through Lahaina on Maui last August, the wall of flames scorched the 151-year-old banyan tree along the historic town's Front Street. But the ...

One of the first places Timothy Griffith Jr. went after the deadliest wildfire in more than a century ripped through Maui's west coast was Lahaina's historic banyan tree. The chief arborist for Maui ...

Spanning nearly two acres and multiple centuries, the banyan tree in the heart of Hawaii’s wildfire-ravaged town of Lahaina literally and figuratively looms large. Its sprawling canopy and dozens of ...