The Alenaio canal next to the Wailoa Visitor Center in Hilo is getting a little help from the Division of Aquatic Resources and State Parks to fight off an invasion of Salvinia molesta, an aquatic fern that has recently taken … Continued
Welfare Ranching: The Subsidized Destruction of the American West. Edited by George Wuerthner and Mollie Matteson. Published in 2002 by the Foundation for Deep Ecology; distributed by Island Press. xv + 345 pages. Introduction by Douglas R. Tompkins. $75 cloth. … Continued
A logging operation that spilled onto state land in South Kona – accidentally, according to the loggers’ attorney – ended up taking from state land timber worth more than a million dollars. But when the Board of Land and Natural … Continued
For a few days last November, a contingent of local scientists did their best to dazzle a visiting federal task force with the many and varied threats Hawai`i is facing as a result of increasing pressure from aquatic alien plants … Continued
East Maui Water Dispute Heats Up With Hearing Officer’s Recommendation “By the time water gets to our patch, it’s warm,” says Beatrice Kekahuna, age 74. Warm water may be good for bathing, but for Kekahuna and other East Maui taro … Continued