Damon Estate Hopes to Avoid Fine, Restore Logged Lands in Ka’u In April, the Board of Land and Natural Resources fined Damon Estate $480,335 for allowing Steve’s Ag Services to take hundreds of trees from Conservation District land owned by … Continued
What lies on the horizon as the Board of Water Supply prepares for increasing demand and shrinking supplies? Its capital improvement project (CIP) budget for 2002-2003 calls for spending nearly $60 million to design and build new facilities, keep old … Continued
Ferns, Fungi, and Frightening Things Daniel D. Palmer. Hawai`i’s Ferns and Fern Allies. University of Hawai`i Press: 2003. 324 pages (including index). $60.00 cloth. How do you tell an Australian tree fern (aggressive invader) from one of Hawai`i’s natives? To … Continued
The bill is finally coming due. After years of free-wheeling application of pesticides and fertilizers by agricultural businesses and the profligate consumption of water by consumers, the Honolulu Board of Water Supply (BWS) and its ratepayers are facing a multi-million … Continued
Waging pretend war is becoming popular on O`ahu’s lush northeastern landscape. In the last couple of years, war movies starring Nicholas Cage and Bruce Willis, filmed at Kualoa and Waikane, made rubber-neckers out of anyone driving the winding two-lane road … Continued