Lavinia Currier visits Molokai on a mission with the Nature Conservancy to purchase and protect Mo’omomi Dunes. She also visits Pu’u O Hoku, and given the owner’s plan to sell the ranch to Japanese golf course developers, recommends that the Nature Conservancy buy it along with the dunes. However, Nature Conservancy at the time was focused on buying smaller land parcels with high numbers of endemic species, and so declines to purchase Pu’u O Hoku.
