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
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
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
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
In determining the health of fish populations, accurate information is essential. But the state of Hawai’i, to which falls the responsibility to collect data on catches of all fish landed in Hawai’i (including fish caught in federal waters), has a … Continued
“Water regs clog permit process.” So screamed the bold headline on page one of the January 17, 1994, edition of Pacific Business News. For developers, the news was grim indeed: according to the article, by Steve Jefferson, “More than $1 … Continued
The Department of Health recently tabulated the results of water quality measurements taken throughout 1992 at sites on Kaua’i, O’ahu, Maui, and the island of Hawai’i. For Lana’i and Moloka’i, the DOH released bar graphs showing average water quality at … Continued
Whenever in a contested case the officials of the agency who are to render the final decision have not heard and examined all of the evidence, the decision, if adverse to a party to the proceeding other than the agency … Continued
In one important regard, the dispute over ownership of an old road running through the Hawai’i Tropical Botanical Garden at Onomea Bay, island of Hawai’i, has pretty well been resolved. As Environment Hawai’i reported in the [url=/members_archives/archives_more.php?id=1273_0_30_0_C]April 1994 Conservation District … Continued
Two years ago, the Board of Land and Natural Resources was asked to grant another one-year extension to the permit issued by the Department of Land and Natural Resources’ Division of State Parks to Clancy Greff’s boating operation.1 Greff was … Continued