Board Talk
Land Board Lags on Minutes State law requires minutes to be made of agency meetings within 30 days of the meeting date. But of the 21 meetings the board had held in the first 10 and a half months of … Continued
Island Watch
Bishop Estate Defies Order Requiring Parking for Trail Access Bishop Estate has informed the Board of Land and Natural Resources that it will not comply with an order the board issued in November 1995 requiring the estate to allow public … Continued
Supreme Court Rebuffs State On Spaceport Agency Meetings
The state Supreme Court has sided with opponents of the Ka`u spaceport who claim that a lower court erroneously dismissed its complaint that the now-disbanded Hawai`i Space Development Authority broke the state’s Sunshine Law. The Supreme Court, in a memorandum … Continued
Claim of Traditional Right to Hunt Is Disputed by Hawaiian Cultural Experts
Among scientists, there is no disagreement over the fact that feral ungulates in Hawai`i wreak devastation on native plants, whether the animals at issue are pigs in the rain forest or sheep and goats in the dryland shrub. In recent … Continued
Old and New Lava Flows at PTA Support Extraordinary Range of Plant Life
Why are so many rare plants found at Pohakuloa Training Area? In December 1989, Lani Stemmermann addressed this question in a short essay she wrote in an effort to elicit support for her lawsuit against the Army. We reprint portions … Continued
The Battle at MPRC: How One Woman Took on the U.S. Army, and Won
On November 24, 1989, Lani Stemmermann, a botanist at the University of Hawai`i at Hilo, visited an area of dryland forest in the western third of Pohakuloa Training Area, in search of research sites for studies of native plants. What … Continued
Hunter Concerns Stall Army Effort To Protect Rare Plants at Pohakuloa
Some of the rarest plants in the world are found in the saddle of Mauna Loa and Mauna Kea on the island of Hawai`i within the U.S. Army’s 108,000-acre Pohakuloa Training Area. Under an Army plan intended to protect several … Continued