If the U.S. Department of Agriculture has its way, yet another alien species may call Hawai’i home in the near future. According to a draft environmental assessment prepared last July by the USDA, the U.S. Forest Service (an arm of … Continued
Discussion Draft: Conservation District Management Plan. Robin Foster, PlanPacific, Inc., for the state Department of Land and Natural Resources. October 1997. Available from Island Printing Center, 737 Bishop Street, Honolulu; $22.68 plus postage (telephone: 523-0902). For the last four and … Continued
AG Finds No Legal Basis for Extension Of Draft EIS Public Comment Periods Developers who want to allow increased opportunity for the public to comment on draft environmental impact statements do so at their own legal peril, the state Department … Continued
A 300-acre shrimp farm is being proposed for state-owned land on the Mana Plain, on the western coast of Kaua`i, by CEATECH USA, Inc., a company made up of local aquaculturists and mainland corporations. The company is in the initial … Continued
In 1992, Landis Ignacio wrote to the Department of Land and Natural Resources, asking if it would give his company, Sunkiss Shrimp Co., Ltd., a long-term lease on a five-acre parcel that his company occupied under a short-term revocable permit. … Continued
In an effort to address the problem of severe overfishing of two species of prized bottomfish — `ehu and onaga — the state Board of Land and Natural Resources has adopted rules setting aside approximately 20 percent of the bottomfish … Continued
On June 5, the Board of Land and Natural Resources issued new, six-month permits to existing commercial ocean recreation operators in Kane`ohe Bay. The action came over the objections– including requests for a contested case — of members of the … Continued
Much ink has been spilled over the results of the 1998 Hawai`i Legislature. Several leading environmentalists, including David Frankel, executive director of the Hawai`i Chapter of the Sierra Club, have described it as the worst on record. Here, we take … Continued
Chris Yuen has been the Big Island member of the Board of Land and Natural Resources since 1990. His second term will expire on June 30. Recently, Environment Hawai`i met with Yuen to discuss his views and experiences on the … Continued
Village Park Concerns Demand Further Investigation Consider this: Barely three in a hundred requests for suspected cancer cluster investigations ever result in the kind of in-depth studies needed to determine whether the suspicions have any scientific basis. The likelihood that … Continued