Thanks for an interesting article, Chad. The last line is telling: "...because the Army has so many training areas and owns so much land on Oahu and a lot of the land is precious endemic native forest.” I'm not sure that the land would be better managed by someone else (it depends who...what if it fell into the hands of luxury home/condo developers?) and it's true that we live in a dangerous world (and neighborhood), but it seems that Oahu is a highly militarized island and that large swathes of the best (and already scarce) land are controlled by the military. Maybe their footprint is too big?