More than three years after the Fish and Wildlife Service took possession of the 5,300 acres of land constituting the Kona unit of the Hakalau Forest National Wildlife Refuge, discussions between the service and the sellers still had not borne … Continued
Late last month, hearing officer Mike Gibson convened the first hearing of the Pflueger-Pila’a contested case, centering on a proposed multi-million dollar fine for damages to the reef off the North Shore of Kaua’i allegedly caused by unauthorized grading. In … Continued
Waging pretend war is becoming popular on O`ahu’s lush northeastern landscape. In the last couple of years, war movies starring Nicholas Cage and Bruce Willis, filmed at Kualoa and Waikane, made rubber-neckers out of anyone driving the winding two-lane road … Continued
Waging pretend war is becoming popular on O`ahu’s lush northeastern landscape. In the last couple of years, war movies starring Nicholas Cage and Bruce Willis, filmed at Kualoa and Waikane, made rubber-neckers out of anyone driving the winding two-lane road … Continued
State Water Commission, Land Board Have Lost Sight of Their Mandates The long wait is almost over. If all goes according to plan, by mid-summer, the twin falls at the back of Waipi`o Valley should be restored. The picture-postcard-perfect vista … Continued
Pu`uwa`awa`a Council Deadline Nears; Foundation Withdraws Financial Support April 15 is more than the deadline for filing your federal taxes; it’s also the deadline for applying for a position on the Department of Land and Natural Resources’ advisory council for … Continued
Waiahole: More than a place name, it has become a word freighted with meaning, a metonym for a complicated, multifaceted dispute over water rights not just in windward O`ahu, but statewide. On December 28, without fanfare, the dispute came to … Continued
Inside in a small room on the campus of the University of Hawai`i at Manoa, three miniature mountain rain forests are in full production: Every eight hours it rains for about three minutes, day and night alternate every twelve hours, … Continued
The doctrine of the public trust has become a keystone nationally in the efforts of communities to press for restored streams, watersheds, and other natural resources that are part of the public weal. In Hawai`i, the public trust doctrine played … Continued
Jan Stevens, who championed the public trust doctrine while employed with the California Attorney General’s Office and working on the celebrated Mono Lake case, spoke in Honolulu last fall at a conference on the public trust sponsored by the University … Continued