It seems no decision regarding activities in the Northwestern Hawaiian Islands is made without some controversy. Last summer, when the state Board of Land and Natural Resources established a no-take marine refuge in state waters around the Northwestern Hawaiian Islands, … Continued
On September 23, 1986, Kuilima Development Company and the trustees of the Estate of James Campbell signed a Unilateral Agreement and Declaration for Conditional Zoning. The documents bound them to fulfilling 14 conditions that the Honolulu City Council had requested … Continued
Up to 10 Galapagos Sharks May Be Culled To Protect Seal Pups at Northwestern Shoals Galapagos sharks began preying on still-nursing monk seal pups at French Frigate Shoals only within the last decade, according to monk seal expert George “Bud” … Continued
“A great deal of effort and funds have been directed toward protection and preservation of the NWHI, but the focus has largely been on direct human impacts (e.g., disturbance, hunting, fishing, introduced species). The effectiveness of these measures could be … Continued
The work is freighted with embarrassingly overwrought prose (“unfurling fronds of fern … green vessels of vegetal life”), sappy reflections (“What unexpected twists and turns of endangered species conservation this journey has taken, I later muse. A library in Philadelphia, … Continued
• “… the triangular island’s southern half…” (p. 3). Was Walters really on the Big Island at all? In what geometric system is it triangular? (A Big Island map does appear as an illustration on page 9 of the book, … Continued
Unlike most spiders, which spin webs to capture their prey, Doryonychus raptor hangs upside-down like a bat and spears passing insects mid-flight with its front claws, which resemble those of birds of prey (hence the name). Rosemary Gillespie, an entomologist … Continued
They were, they said, “extremely concerned with what is happening at NELHA relative to its business model… When most aquaculture tenants located here, the business model pursued by the state was to provide an affordable resource, seawater, to ‘develop and … Continued
Long before the last embers had cooled from the Broomsedge Fire at Hawai`i Volcanoes National Park in July 2000, Rhonda Loh had begun plotting ways to defeat the next one. By August, Loh, at the time a botanist with the … Continued
As with any play, the cast of characters in the unfolding forest rehabilitation drama at Hawai`i Volcanoes National Park includes heroes, villains, and lots of bit parts. Here is a rundown, in order of appearance, of those mentioned in the … Continued