Inside in a small room on the campus of the University of Hawai`i at Manoa, three miniature mountain rain forests are in full production: Every eight hours it rains for about three minutes, day and night alternate every twelve hours, … Continued
Waiahole: More than a place name, it has become a word freighted with meaning, a metonym for a complicated, multifaceted dispute over water rights not just in windward O`ahu, but statewide. On December 28, without fanfare, the dispute came to … Continued
Building a Bridge to the Future on the Stones of Kahikinui From the overcast skies, a steady wind whips across the southern coast of Maui, beating down parched grasses and shrubs. Unmoved are the outcroppings of a`a lava, nearly as … Continued
Sugar Cove Quibbles Over Quality of Sand Sugar Cove’s efforts to protect the shoreline should be commended, Land Division planner Sam Lemmo told the Board of Land and Natural Resources at its January 11 meeting. But their approach needs some … Continued
With this issue, Environment Hawai`i launches an occasional column to address subjects we have dealt with in the past. If you have suggestions for topics, give us a call. In 1997, a long-simmering dispute over public shoreline access at Onomea … Continued
Jan Stevens, who championed the public trust doctrine while employed with the California Attorney General’s Office and working on the celebrated Mono Lake case, spoke in Honolulu last fall at a conference on the public trust sponsored by the University … Continued
The doctrine of the public trust has become a keystone nationally in the efforts of communities to press for restored streams, watersheds, and other natural resources that are part of the public weal. In Hawai`i, the public trust doctrine played … Continued