After 25 Years, Moloka`i Ranch Tries To Close Down Its Wild Game Business Moloka`i Ranch is in the final phases of closing its Wildlife Conservation Park, a drive-through tourist attraction featuring wild animals — zebras, giraffes, eland, oryx, Barbary sheep … Continued
The History of the Introduction Of Pronghorn Antelope to Lana`i In 1959, the state Department of Agriculture and Conservation (later bifurcated into the Department of Agriculture and the Department of Land and Natural Resources) undertook to introduce pronghorn antelope to … Continued
Board Yields on Permit to Dredge Hawai`i Kai Channel to Maunalua Bay The Board of Land and Natural Resources has given conditional approval to a request to dredge a channel between Maunalua Bay and the private Kuapa Pond, centerpiece of … Continued
Off the windswept, isolated coast of northwestern Moloka`i, a three-year experiment in Native Hawaiian management of nearshore fisheries is at a crossroads. The legislative authorization for the experiment has run its course, but the group that undertook it remains hopeful … Continued
The Lu`uwai family of Makena, Maui, fished the nearshore waters of Ahihi-Kina`u for decades until 1973, when the area became the state’s first designated Natural Area Reserve, where boating and fishing are prohibited. Now, the Lu`uwais are breaking new ground … Continued
In the March 1998 issue of Environment Hawai`i, Teresa Menard questioned the stability of the host preference of Phyllonorycter myricae Dechka, an exotic gracillariid moth proposed for introduction into Hawai`i as a biological control agent against fayatree, or Myrica faya … Continued
I am writing in response to your December 1998 editorial, “Albatross Workshop Won’t Save Birds.” I was disappointed by the headline on this editorial, especially since I was the workshop’s coordinator. Although your editorial mentioned that the Black-footed Albatross Workshop … Continued
“In many cases, the farmers are not literate in their own language, much less English. The ability to handle things safely depends on the ability to read labels or to be supervised.” -Barry Brennan, Pesticide Coordinator, University of Hawai’i at … Continued
Maurice Tamura sighs as he points to a tattered organizational chart. Position after position in the Department of Health, Food and Drug Branch Tamura supervises has been crossed out with pencil; notes written alongside show the dates when the slots … Continued