To judge by the research awards handed out by the Hawai‘i Invasive Species Council, the state’s gravest invasive threats are melastomes (including miconia), the snowflake coral, alien marine algae, and the noisy coqui frog. The single largest grant was awarded … Continued
Joseph Sax, emeritus professor at the University of California at Berkeley’s Boalt Hall, is one of the nation’s foremost experts in the public trust doctrine. This semester, he is also a visiting professor at the University of Hawai‘i William S. … Continued
Good science is key to protecting Hawai‘i’s streams. But according to Bill Devick, retired administrator for the state’s Division of Aquatic Resources, the state agencies charged with protecting streams are “too diffuse.” At the Symposium on Hawaiian Streams and Estuaries … Continued
[b]Tradewinds Hangs Onto Timber License, Faces New Deadlines for Capital, Construction[/b] When the Land Board voted in June 2001 to grant Tradewinds Forest Products, LLC, a license to log 8,875 acres in the state’s Waiakea Timber Management Area in South … Continued
“We’ve gotta smoke ’em out.” So said Kitty Simonds, executive di rector of the Western Pacific Fishery Man agemen Council, in the moments following the council’s approval last month of a range of measures intended to address overfishing of bigeye … Continued
In July 2004, the Northwestern Hawaiian Islands Coral Reef Ecosystem Reserve’s advisory council developed a preferred fishing alternative for the proposed NWHI National Marine Sanctuary. It included a 40 nautical mile zone around the islands stretching from Nihoa to Kure, … Continued
This year is the 60thanniversary of the end of World War II. And early last month, as part of a WWII history tour, war buffs traveled by cruise ship to Midway atoll in the Northwest Hawaiian Islands, where in June … Continued
Restoring Lehua: The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service has published a draft environmental assessment for restoring the ecosystem of the 284-acre islet of Lehua, three-quarters of a mile off the north ern shore of Ni‘ihau, at the western end of … Continued
The number of Hawaiian plants listed as threatened or endangered on the list maintained by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service stands at 273. A roughly equivalent number of Hawaiian plants — “between 250 and 275,” says stae botanist Vickie … Continued
By the time John and kathy Ewel retired this spring from the Institute of Pacific Island Forestry, a research unit of the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Forest Service, they had left a deep, lasting impression. They came to the institute … Continued