The work is freighted with embarrassingly overwrought prose (“unfurling fronds of fern … green vessels of vegetal life”), sappy reflections (“What unexpected twists and turns of endangered species conservation this journey has taken, I later muse. A library in Philadelphia, … Continued
• “… the triangular island’s southern half…” (p. 3). Was Walters really on the Big Island at all? In what geometric system is it triangular? (A Big Island map does appear as an illustration on page 9 of the book, … Continued
Unlike most spiders, which spin webs to capture their prey, Doryonychus raptor hangs upside-down like a bat and spears passing insects mid-flight with its front claws, which resemble those of birds of prey (hence the name). Rosemary Gillespie, an entomologist … Continued
They were, they said, “extremely concerned with what is happening at NELHA relative to its business model… When most aquaculture tenants located here, the business model pursued by the state was to provide an affordable resource, seawater, to ‘develop and … Continued
Long before the last embers had cooled from the Broomsedge Fire at Hawai`i Volcanoes National Park in July 2000, Rhonda Loh had begun plotting ways to defeat the next one. By August, Loh, at the time a botanist with the … Continued
As with any play, the cast of characters in the unfolding forest rehabilitation drama at Hawai`i Volcanoes National Park includes heroes, villains, and lots of bit parts. Here is a rundown, in order of appearance, of those mentioned in the … Continued
The controversy over surface water in central Maui has finally come to a head. On February 15, the state Commission on Water Resource Management authorized its chair, Peter Young, to appoint a mediator to help resolve an October 2004 waste … Continued
On February 12, Natural Area Reserves System Commissioners, state and Army staff, and a few members of the public trekked the long, sandy road through Ka`ena State Park and the Ka`ena NAR to see firsthand where the U.S. Army’s environmental … Continued
“How much time should we devote to putting our two cents in?” asked Linda Paul at a recent meeting of the federal Northwestern Hawaiian Islands Coral Reef Ecosystem Reserve Advisory Council. In the saga over the pending designation of the … Continued
Spills and Fish Kills? In the last several months, fish kills have been reported at two streams on O`ahu. The January issue of Hawai`i Fishing News said a “bubbly substance” appeared in December at Ka`elepulu Stream in Kailua; columnist Knud … Continued