The Story Behind The Scenery - Hawai'i Volcanoes National Park

Hawaiʻi Volcanoes National Park is a land contrasts and superlatives, a volcanic mountain that arose from the sea for hundreds of thousands of years, and today continues to add land from both Kīlauea and Mauna Loa volcanoes. It shelters plants and animals found here and only here, organisms which are irreplaceable. This is the land of the volcano goddess Pele, currently in residence at the summit of Kīlauea at Halemaʻumauʻ crater.

Hawaiʻi Volcanoes National Park was established in 1916  to protect the geologic, biologic, and cultural resources on Kīlauea and Mauna Loa, Hawaii's two most active volcanoes.

Author:  Janet L. Babb

48 pages

Edited by Cheri C. Madison

Book design by K.C. DenDooven

Publisher: K.C. Publications

Published: 2004

ISBN: 088714143-9