NEW & NOTEWORTHYʻĀina Leʻa Update: On October 7, 3rd Circuit Judge Wendy DeWeese approved the sale of roughly 38 acres of land in the Big Island district of South Kohala to Romspen Investment, one of the several creditors of ʻĀina … Continued
“I almost can’t believe I’m going to say this,” said commissioner Mike Buck before moving to defer taking action on alleged violations of the interim instream flow standard (IIFS) for Olowalu Stream in West Maui. At the commission’s October 18 … Continued
In September, Water Commission hydrologist Ayron Strauch presented a draft proposal to amend the interim instream flow standards of 11 streams in East Maui that were not part of a 2018 contested case hearing decision and order amending about two … Continued
Aerial Spraying Could Extinguish Little Fire Ant Infestations on Maui “They’re miserable little things that we need to get rid of,” Brooke Mahnken of the Maui Invasive Species Committee said, referring to the little fire ant (Wasmannia auropunctata), which first … Continued
Commission Gives Hui Permit to Rebuild Waiheʻe ʻAuwai Destroyed by 2018 Flood On February 18, 2018, a massive flood ripped away a 500-year-old ʻawuai that fed dozens of acres of loʻi kalo in North Waiheʻe in Central Maui. Although hundreds … Continued
On August 16, the Commission on Water Resource Management finally approved a permit for the construction of a well to serve the Natural Energy Laboratory of Hawaiʻi Authority (NELHA) in Keahole and the Hawaiʻi Housing Finance and Development Corporation’s (HHFDC) … Continued
Kihei High: How will students at the new Kihei High School – now named Kulanihakoʻi – cross Piʻilani Highway to get to the campus? Until last year, the Department of Education maintained that it did not need to comply with … Continued
The theme of this year’s annual Hawaiʻi Conservation Conference, held July 18 to 22 via Zoom, was “Pilina Mauli Ola — Connections that Offer Resilience and Hope.” So along with presentations reporting the latest results of various natural resource studies and management … Continued
Sierra Club Appeals BLNR Decision Over Four East Maui Stream Permits For now, the four permits granted in 2020 by the Board of Land and Natural Resources to Alexander & Baldwin and its East Maui irrigation Company so they could … Continued
A week before Western Pacific Fishery Management Council members railed against a proposal to expand the Pacific Remote Islands Marine National Monument, a member of the council’s Scientific and Statistical Committee (SSC) suggested that there was at least one aspect … Continued