“We were, at every step in the process — in regard to sea surface temperature, potential for storm generation, as well as changes regarding precipitation — staggered at what we were seeing,” says Stephen Miller, an ecologist with the U.S. … Continued
Vacant Seats: The Office of Environmental Quality Control has been headless since the departure last May of Ginny Salmonson. Larry Lau, deputy director of the Department of Health, is filling in, but has his hands full with his normal duties. … Continued
The value of marine reserves has been hotly debated recently with last year’s establishment of the Papahanaumokuakea Marine National Monument and the federal determination that overfishing of bottomfish is occurring in the Main Hawaiian Islands. Some have argued that marine … Continued
Officers with the state Division of Conservation Resources and Enforcement spend about as much time performing non-resource related activities, such as providing security for cruise ships, as they do protecting the state’s natural environment, according to University of Hawai`i affiliate … Continued
Since 2005, state law has banned the development of new golf courses on land in the state Agriculture District. Yet last year, when Hokukano Ranch, Inc., submitted its plans for its “Hokukano Preserves” subdivision of 2,895 acres into a hundred … Continued
To hear the owners and their agents describe it, a proposed upscale, gated golf-course subdivision on agricultural land in the lee of Mauna Loa, in the ahupua`a of Hokukano, will do nothing less than heal the damaged relationship between humans … Continued
Neal L. Evenhuis, editor. Barefoot on Lava: The Journals and Correspondence of Naturalist R.C.L. Perkins in Hawai`i, 1892-1901. Bishop Museum Press: Honolulu, 2007. 412 pages. Hardcover: $29.95. “I am off on Monday to Lana`i, there is an all but extinct … Continued
If the Hawai`i longline fleet is consistently reaching or nearing its annual limit on interactions with endangered sea turtles – without even fishing as hard as it’s allowed to – then why should the Hawai`i Longline Association and the Western … Continued
The Natural Energy Laboratory of Hawai`i Authority, built in the 1980s at Keahole Point, Kona, to be a center for deep seawater-related energy and aquaculture research, has always struggled to cover its costs. In recent years, the facility, which cost … Continued
The long-simmering dispute before the state Board of Land and Natural Resources over what to do with more than a hundred cabins at Koke`e and Waimea on Kaua`i has shifted to 5th Circuit Court. There, last April 11, attorneys representing … Continued