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Ka‘u Community Nears Its Goal To Add Waiohonu To Forest Reserve “I’ve never seen a proposal so rich with prom ise as this one,” said Susan Marinelli, a Hawai‘i resident who has been doing conser vation work for 21 years. … Continued
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DLNR Defends Executive Sessions Protecting private individuals from embarrassment is a valid reason for the Board of Land and Natural Resources to meet in private. That’s according to Linda Chow, a deputy attorney general assigned to the Department of Land … Continued
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Board Denies Koa Loggers’ Attempt To Subtract Restoration Costs From Fine If Koa Timber and its partner Hawai’i Forest Preservation LLC had their way, they would submit a detailed forest restoration plan to the Board of Land and Natural Resources, … Continued
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State To Exchange Lands With Kapalua Developer Does an exchange of 226.545 acres of ceded ag land in Lahaina for 1.432 acres of private land at a Waikele industrial park sound fair? To the state Office of Hawaiian Affairs, it … Continued
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DLNR to Revamp Commercial Use Rules After Getting an Earful from the Public A new permit system for surf schools, kayak renters and other commercial operations multiplying like bunnies along Hawai’i’s beaches is probably not going to be in place … Continued
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Board Revisits Decision To Remove Private Land From Kealia Reserve On August 13, the state Board of Land and Natural Resources once again removed a 2,400-acre parcel owned by Cornerstone Hawai’i Holdings, LLC, from Kaua’i’s Kealia Forest Reserve. This time … Continued
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Board Makes its Choice for Maui Wind Power Developer “This is Matt,” Land Division administrator Dierdre Mamiya told the Board of Land and Natural Resources, motioning toward a bespectacled young man to her right. And, she added, contrary to what … Continued
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State Parks Division to Investigate Future of Cabins at Koke’e, Kaua’i In three years, all of the state leases for the old cabins in Koke’e will end. Whether they will continue to be leased for 20-year terms, be turned into … Continued
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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
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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