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MOLOKAI, HI - Boardwalk, ferns and moss covered trees of the Pepeopae Bog in the Kamakou Nature Preserve on Molokai, Hawaii. The hiking trail in the preserve is built out of 2x4 boards and corrugated metal to keep hikers from damaging the fragile bog ecosystem that lives in this part of the island. The rain forest of Kamakou Preserve lies near the summit of Molokai's highest mountain. Here you will find more than 250 species of Hawaiian plants - at least 219 of which can be found nowhere else in the world (Photo by Jonathan Kingston/Aurora).