I Have Two Mommies University of Hawai`i zoology student Lindsay Young has discovered something unexpected while studying Laysan albatross at O`ahu’s Ka`ena Point Natural Area Reserve: 25 percent of nesting pairs there are female-female. Although members of the public and … Continued
The Kuilima Resort Company seems to believe it has all the time in the world to fulfill its expansion plans; the state believes it can, and perhaps should, impose a deadline; and the nonprofit Defend O`ahu Coalition says that the … Continued
Does O`ahu’s visitor industry even need Kuilima to expand? Given the fact that occupancy rates reach about 90 percent during peak months, some might say yes. But in 1986, in justifying its decision to approve the redistricting of Kuilima’s 236 … Continued
In accordance with the Land Use Commission’s July 11 decision, attorneys for the Kuilima Resort Company submitted on August 18 a 16-page report on its progress toward meeting the LUC’s nine redistricting conditions. The LUC will discuss this report at … Continued
In his plenary address to the Hawai`i Conservation Alliance’s annual conservation conference in July, Stephen Miller asked the questions that usually arise when people talk about global warming: “How profound is it? … Will it be really hot, or kinda … Continued
One of the scariest potentially invasive pests is also one of the smallest. Known as `ohi`a rust, Puccinia psidii is a relative latecomer, being discovered on `ohi`a seedings in an O`ahu nursery in 2005. Since then, it has spread throughout … Continued
Governor Linda Lingle vetoed one of the most significant bills relating to invasive species to come out of the 2008 Legislature. House Bill 2843, which expands the list of freight subject to inspection for invasive species to include air shipments, … Continued
There’s been a slight change of plans at the state’s natural energy lab at Keahole, just south of the Kona airport on the sunny leeward coast of the Big Island. For nearly two years, Ron Baird, administrator of the Natural … Continued
Amid much hoopla and ceremony, in June of 2006, as a smiling Governor Linda Lingle looked on, Ron Baird of the state’s Natural Energy Laboratory of Hawai`i Authority and Hans Krock, president of OCEES, signed a letter of intent, committing … Continued
These days, most of the recently arrived invasive species in Hawai`i are accidents. No one intended to bring the wiliwili gall wasp to the islands; it was apparently a hitchhiker on imported nursery plants. Certainly no one thought it would … Continued