“Fight for the Right to Fish!” Those bellicose words, sandwiched between a marlin dressed in Old Glory and an ulua sporting the Hawaiian flag, are emblazoned on a T-shirt offered for sale by Hawai’i Fishing News. In its August issue, … Continued
Board Revisits Decision To Remove Private Land From Kealia Reserve On August 13, the state Board of Land and Natural Resources once again removed a 2,400-acre parcel owned by Cornerstone Hawai’i Holdings, LLC, from Kaua’i’s Kealia Forest Reserve. This time … Continued
You can get all kinds of permits at the Department of Land and Natural Resources. There are permits for park concessions, camping, fishing, boating, mooring, Conservation District uses… But if you’re a commercial operator and you want to run a … Continued
How long must federal taxpayers wait to see their purchase of land for a wildlife refuge in South Kona bear fruit? As Environment Hawai’i reported last October and November, the Fish and Wildlife Service had been so entangled in litigation … Continued
The Land Board Shuts Out the Public Assume, for the moment, that the public has a right to know what the agencies that control resources it owns do with those resources. You might want to have a law, say, that … Continued
Wekiu Mauna Kea, kuahiwi ku ha’o i ka malie. Mauna Kea, standing alone in the calm. ‘Olelo No’eau Hawaiian Proverbs & Poetical Sayings, by Mary Kawena Pukui (1983) Mauna Kea is prominent in Hawaiian cultural and natural history. When measured … Continued
“I bought a piece of property and I improved it. Nobody wanted it when I bought it. My own daughter said it’s the worst piece of property she ever saw and I made the biggest mistake of my life,” said … Continued
Wednesday, February 26, 2 a.m. The Little Annou, a Maltese-registered freighter, pulls into the Port of Hilo. The hatches to its huge holds open and its cranes unfold. The first of dozens of freight trucks that are queued up along … Continued
Peter Young, the new director of the Department of Land and Natural Resources, recently granted interviews to Environment Hawai`i editor Patricia Tummons and staff writer Teresa Dawson. Here are excerpts: What are your goals, your vision for the department? As … Continued