Attorneys representing Big Island logging company Steve’s Ag Services, Ltd., and its former partner Contract Milling, LLC, have responded to a suit filed by Damon Estate that seeks to recover costs incurred as a result of the loggers’ actions. Their … Continued
“We weren’t trying to do as much stuff in the NARS as we are now,” says Army biologist Kapua Kawelo of the early days when the Army undertook work in the state’s Natural Area Reserves System (NARS) areas as part … Continued
To judge by the research awards handed out by the Hawai‘i Invasive Species Council, the state’s gravest invasive threats are melastomes (including miconia), the snowflake coral, alien marine algae, and the noisy coqui frog. The single largest grant was awarded … Continued
Joseph Sax, emeritus professor at the University of California at Berkeley’s Boalt Hall, is one of the nation’s foremost experts in the public trust doctrine. This semester, he is also a visiting professor at the University of Hawai‘i William S. … Continued
Good science is key to protecting Hawai‘i’s streams. But according to Bill Devick, retired administrator for the state’s Division of Aquatic Resources, the state agencies charged with protecting streams are “too diffuse.” At the Symposium on Hawaiian Streams and Estuaries … Continued
[b]Tradewinds Hangs Onto Timber License, Faces New Deadlines for Capital, Construction[/b] When the Land Board voted in June 2001 to grant Tradewinds Forest Products, LLC, a license to log 8,875 acres in the state’s Waiakea Timber Management Area in South … Continued
“We’ve gotta smoke ’em out.” So said Kitty Simonds, executive di rector of the Western Pacific Fishery Man agemen Council, in the moments following the council’s approval last month of a range of measures intended to address overfishing of bigeye … Continued
In July 2004, the Northwestern Hawaiian Islands Coral Reef Ecosystem Reserve’s advisory council developed a preferred fishing alternative for the proposed NWHI National Marine Sanctuary. It included a 40 nautical mile zone around the islands stretching from Nihoa to Kure, … Continued
This year is the 60thanniversary of the end of World War II. And early last month, as part of a WWII history tour, war buffs traveled by cruise ship to Midway atoll in the Northwest Hawaiian Islands, where in June … Continued
Restoring Lehua: The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service has published a draft environmental assessment for restoring the ecosystem of the 284-acre islet of Lehua, three-quarters of a mile off the north ern shore of Ni‘ihau, at the western end of … Continued