Piiholo

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Piiholo's elevation of 689 meters is high enough to support temperate-zone plants such as pine and pecan.
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loblolly pine plantation at Piiholo.

Piʻiholo is a mountain summit on the island of Maui in Hawaii. It is at Script error: No such module "Coordinates". and has an elevation of 689 meters (2,260 feet).[1]

Its soils are mostly dark reddish brown silty clays developed on long-weathered volcanic ash which supports ranchland where cattle and horses are raised.[2] There also is a headquarters unit of the Maui Invasive Species Committee (MISC)[3] at the Haleakala Experiment Station of the University of Hawaii.[4] The nearest town is Makawao.

The major landowner in the area is the family descended from Henry Perrine Baldwin (1842–1911).[5] His son Henry Alexander Baldwin created the Piʻiholo Ranch out of the larger Haleakala Ranch, named after Haleakalā, the highest point in Maui. The ranch now features eco-tourism.[6] The endangered Hawaiian goose Branta sandvicensis known as Nēnē in the Hawaiian language, is being reintroduced here under supervision of Peter Baldwin.[7]

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