Lawsuit Drives DLNR to Propose Changes in Definition of Shoreline For years, members of the public as well as government officials have looked disapprovingly on owners of beachfront properties who plant vegetation beyond the shoreline to expand the buildable area … Continued
Council under Fire: The Western Pacific Fishery Management Council, which develops rules for fishing in federal waters around Hawai`i and other U.S. islands in the Pacific, has come under fire from the O`ahu Game Fish Club and the Wai`anae Boat … Continued
Last October, the Commission on Water Resource Management granted permission to Waiawa Development, LLC and Kamehameha Schools to withdraw roughly one million gallons of water a day from the Waipahu-Waiawa Ground Water Management Area in Central O`ahu. Over objections from … Continued
“We had this big high surf event. They closed down Big Beach. [Visitors] all ended up at La Perouse Bay. My ranger’s calling me up freaking out. Families getting out of their cars, walking along the coastline, big waves crashing … Continued
Most of us will never have the opportunity to visit these two small islands at the southern end of the Northwestern Hawaiian archipelago, but a book just published by Bishop Museum Press allows those interested in the islands’ history, culture, … Continued
While most of the legal attention on the problem of turtle bycatch in the Hawai`i longline fleet has focused on the take of turtles by boats targeting swordfish, the number of turtles taken by vessels targeting tuna saw a dramatic … Continued
“We’re talking about at most five or six streams out of the 110 that they’re diverting right now,” Moses Haia explained to contested case hearing officer E. John McConnell. For years, Haia and his fellow attorneys at the Native Hawaiian … Continued