“The devil is in the details.” If that cliché was uttered once at the September meeting of the Natural Area Reserves System Commission, it was uttered a dozen times as commissioners thrashed out the implications of having the U.S. Forest … Continued
If you managed your bank account like the Department of Land and Natural Resources manages its finances, you’d be lucky to escape a jail term. That’s the conclusion one is left with after reading an audit of the DLNR’s finances … Continued
Site Conditions, Budget Restraints Cause Koa Restoration to Fall Short “There are a lot of unknowns about restoring native forests that have been disturbed like this, that have been logged,” Division of Forestry and Wildlife administrator Paul Conry told the … Continued
The Hawai`i Conservation Alliance held its annual conference in July, providing an embarrassment of riches to our two reporters in attendance. Here’s the second, and final, installment taken from our reporters’ notebooks. Avoiding Beach Loss: A century from now, people … Continued
Is Lenny Freed a prophet without honor in his own land when he warns of doom for the Hawai`i `akepa? Or is he the boy crying wolf? At the 2006 Hawai`i Conservation Conference, held in July at the Honolulu Convention … Continued