There is no such thing as a private beach in Hawai’i. But, as has been well reported elsewhere, that fact was lost on the guards hired by Bill Gates to keep members of a prying press away from Gates’ New … Continued
How much water does Lana’i have? And is that enough to support the kind of development that David Murdock has planned for it? These two questions are at the heart of a dispute that has pitted Murdock’s Dole Food Company … Continued
In GTE Directories, Fingers Walk Through Ancient Canadian Forest Telephone directories published in Hawai’i and elsewhere by GTE are printed on paper purchased from MacMillan-Bloedel, a wood products company based in Vancouver, British Columbia. Much of that paper comes from … Continued
Repeated Reports of Violations Near Keana’e Fall on Deaf Ears at DLNR “Four centuries ago, Kiha-a-Pi’ilani returned to East Maui from the island of Hawai’i to reclaim his kingdom. So numerous were his war canoes that the first ones reached … Continued
The federal Department of Energy has released its implementation plan for the environmental impact statement that is to address management options for dealing with spent nuclear fuel being stored at Pearl Harbor and other naval installations. The plan calls for … Continued
The Division of Boating and Ocean Recreation, a part of the Department of Land and Natural Resources, has begun processing of its first application for commercial beach use. The application is being made by Club Lanai, a tour boat company. … Continued
Starting in the late 1970s, Hawai’i’s fisheries came under increasing state and federal scrutiny. In 1979, the state issued its first fisheries development plan, which prescribed an ambitious array of activities (some state, some federal, some private) intended to encourage … Continued
Will Pu’u Anahulu Well Benefit Waikoloa Luxury Homes, Golf Course? As Environment Hawai’i reported last month, the Department of Land and Natural Resources’ Division of Water and Land Development is planning to drill a $1.2 million, 18-inch well in the … Continued
If everyone can agree on the need to restore the populations of onaga and opakapaka in the Main Hawaiian Islands, there still remains the task of deciding how this can best be done. Here are some of the options, as … Continued
Land Board Approves Kaua’i Project That May Harm Rare Snail Species At its meeting of June 9, 1994, the Board of Land and Natural Resources gave its approval to a Conservation District Use Application for construction of a municipal water … Continued