Although the Army Corps of Engineers, who permitted the work, call it stream "clearance," nothing was
actually cleared from the stream. The cut grass and branch debris stays where it falls.
Cutting grass on the far side of the stream.
The cutting approaches the blooming yellow shower tree sapling.
He cuts around the fallen branches. Even though it was branches jamming a bridge that caused the Manoa
flood on the UH campus, branches are not removed from the stream.
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