For the most part, the National Marine Fisheries Service agrees with the Western Pacific Fishery Management Council’s proposed rule changes for Hawai`i’s shallow-set longline swordfish fishery, and based on the council’s recommendations, the service is expected to announce new rules … Continued
“We’re getting out of land resource policy into energy policy,” Hawai`i Island Land Board member Rob Pacheco said at the board’s October 10 meeting. Ever since the state Legislature passed Act 145 earlier this year to allow the Department of … Continued
How high, exactly, will the bar be? One of the first requirements needed to carry out Hawai`i’s pioneering greenhouse-gas regulation law was to develop a benchmark for future regulation. Under the law – Act 234 of the 2007 Legislature – … Continued
Little Ant, Big Problem: It’s only a sixteenth of an inch long, but don’t underestimate the punch it packs. The little fire ant (Wasmannia auropunctata) was first found on the Big Island in 1999. Although a quarantine was placed on … Continued
Last year, economists with the consulting firm McKinsey & Co. released their analysis of what it would cost to abate greenhouse gas emissions in the United States. The December 2007 report – Reducing U.S. Greenhouse Gas Emissions: How Much at … Continued
<b>Old `Ohi`a:</b> Pat Hart thinks he may have found the oldest broadleaf trees in the Northern Hemisphere – right in his back yard. More than a decade ago, Hart, a professor of biology at the University of Hawai`i – Hilo, … Continued
Nature Conservancy Withdraws from Honouliuli The Nature Conservancy of Hawai`i has decided to refocus its management efforts on intact native habitats. And because its 3,600-acre Honouliuli preserve contains a mix of native and non-native habitat, TNCH asked the state Department … Continued
Controversy Flares Over Proposal to Control Waiawi with Scale Insect The proposed release of a scale insect to control strawberry guava, or waiawi (Psidium cattleianum), has sparked an outcry of opposition among some sectors of the public. Yet, although the … Continued
Opponents of the planned introduction of a biocontrol agent for strawberry guava have raised several arguments. Here are the top concerns, along with the responses from scientists with the Forest Service, the USDA Agricultural Research Service, and others: • The … Continued
A dream, or a nightmare? A visionary solution to Hawai`i’s growing problems of rubbish and oil dependency? Or a pie-in-the-sky proposal, completely untethered from reality? Those were among the conflicting views of a proposal that recently came before the board … Continued