What, exactly, are the terms of the Waiakea Timber Management license that the state proposes to issue to Tradewinds Forest Products and the impacts of the license on other public resources? Here is a summary: Revenues How much does the … Continued
Kaua`i’s Rare Plants Need Protection from Goats On San Clemente Island off Southern California, the problem was simple: goats were eating the myriad of endemic species almost to extinction. The Navy, which was managing the area, set forth on a … Continued
The `Iao aquifer is the second largest in the state – but to Maui County residents, no other aquifer matches it in importance. Located deep within the mountains of West Maui, it is the source of three quarters of all … Continued
Whenever wells are drilled and pumped, groundwater will be affected as will any nearby surface stream fed by the groundwater. Describing and anticipating these hydrologic consequences should be a major task of the state Commission on Water Resource Management, the … Continued
It was what one Maui resident called a “reverse Robin Hood” deal, where water was being robbed from the island’s poor – beset with constant water restrictions – and given to rich developers for resort and housing projects. At its … Continued
The following exchange occurred at a meeting of the Maui Board of Water Supply on November 22, 2000. David Craddick, director of the Department of Water Supply, and Ellen Kraftsow, of the department’s Water Resources Division, are questioned by Board … Continued
Pu`uwa`awa`a Management Questions Are Put On Hold For Six More Months Selecting a steward for 21,000 acres of ranch land at Pu`uwa`awa`a and portions of Pu`uanahulu proved to be a thorny issue at the April 12 meeting of the Board … Continued
Formed by underground dikes – deep walls of basalt that cut through softer volcanic rock — Makaleha Spring on Kaua`i pumps out an amazing amount of water that feeds the island’s eastern watershed. The spring is one of six known … Continued
Eat Truth to Power Kimberly Clark is a visionary. It matters not that her piercing turquoise eyes have a rare disorder that makes her legally blind. Though you would never guess the impairment on meeting her, it makes her intense … Continued