"They will just take everything in the landscape and if they destroy the trees and eat the grasses there's no kangaroos, no emus, no small birds if there's no trees, no reptiles, " she says.

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On one side are the people who believe that the first proto-birds climbed into trees and that, as they glided down, they figured out how to flap.

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Not spring, the trees overly arrogant, the flowers showing off on each turn, the birds chirping as if to say we knew it all along, we told you it would come.

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Native birds disdain the trees.

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Indeed, during my visit Jeremy DeSimone discovered a birds' nest in one of the oak trees.

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"We destroy these resources at our peril, " Clinton said during his visit to the park, known for its towering, fog-shrouded mountain peaks, dripping trees and exotic birds.

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