The group of scientists at Paliku cabin along the eastern rim of Maui’s Haleakala crater in May 2001 could not help but draw stares from the backpackers sharing the campground. After sundown, at a time when most campers would be … Continued
Hamakua Homesteaders, Plantations Conspire Against Forest In celebrating 2003 as the Year of the Hawaiian Forest, Environment Hawai’i is reprinting historical records that depict changes in the islands’ forested landscape over the last two centuries. This month’s selection is taken … Continued
Unsustainable Losses of Leatherbacks After a run of a hundred million or so years, the Pacific leatherback turtle, Dermochelys coriacea, is looking death in the eye. Over the last couple of decades, exponential declines in numbers of nesting female leatherbacks … Continued
The fate of the state’s first Natural Area Reserve may be to cease being one. “‘Ahihi-Kina’u has restricted park use written all over it,” said Dan Davidson at the Natural Area Reserve System Commission’s June 6 meeting. Davidson is deputy … Continued
Where does jeopardy lie? That’s the question that the Western Pacific Regional Fishery Management Council is trying to answer as it deals with the demands of Honolulu-based longline fishers to lift restrictions intended to reduce the number of endangered sea … Continued