Members of Lanaians for Sensible Growth may be feeling like they’ve been sideswiped. Before they could take their turn arguing whether potable water had been improperly used to irrigate Castle and Cooke Resorts’ Manele golf course, the state Land Use … Continued
When attorney Jim Paul announced that he was going to try to explain, in 15 minutes, how court decisions – the Waiahole ditch decisions, in particular – affect water use, the small crowd before him erupted in giggles. Paul had … Continued
A New Agreement for Wainiha Valley To make way for Hawai`i’s third-largest private nature preserve, the state Board of Land and Natural Resources last month terminated an agreement under which McBryde Sugar Company, Ltd., had surrendered to the state control … Continued
Maui Double Whammy: Irrigation is down, rainfall is down – and West Maui is drier than ever. That’s the conclusion of a recent report by the U.S. Geological Survey on rainfall and the impact of changing land-use patterns in the … Continued
Weeks before the state Board of Land and Natural Resources approved a revised, stricter set of lay gill-netting rules late last year, an endangered monk seal pup was found dead, wrapped in a gill net, on a beach in Waimanalo, … Continued
1976: Kaua`i, death by entanglement in gill net 1986: Necker, death by entanglement in a bridle rope of a lobster trap 1994: O`ahu’s west shore, death by entanglement in illegally set commercial gill net 1995: Kaua`i, ingestion of a recreational … Continued
The June 2006 presidential order establishing the Northwestern Hawaiian Islands (NWHI) Marine National Monument gives the eight remaining federally permitted bottomfishers four more years to fish there before all commercial fishing within the monument is prohibited. Before the monument was … Continued
According to the House committee report that details what Congress intended for the 2003 appropriation of $100 million for fisheries relief (including $5 million for Hawai`i), no more than five percent was to be used for administrative expenses and “no … Continued
For years, both the Department of Hawaiian Home Lands and the Department of Land and Natural Resources have wanted to develop their lands at Kealakehe and Honokohau. Except for uses surrounding the Honokohau Small Boat Harbor, the area — a … Continued
With this edition, Environment Hawai`i marks the publication of its 200th issue. When the newsletter began, in July 1990, I had no inkling that the enterprise would last as long as it has. Frankly, I’m blown away at the thought … Continued