The gears of government grind slowly. When it comes to the gears that grind out amendments to the lease of state lands held by F. Newell Bohnett, movement appears to have ceased altogether. In October 1984, the Board of Land … Continued
The County of Hawai’i has not much more luck getting Pu’uwa’awa’a Ranch to comply with its rules and regulations than the state has had. The most conspicuous area of noncompliance has occurred in the area of building permits for structures … Continued
For some reason or other known only to Providence, our rarer and interesting native trees have been concentrated in certain places where they form a veritable bonanza for the delight of the delving botanist. – C.S. Judd “Botanical Bonanzas” (1932) … Continued
In 1982, the Department of Land and Natural Resources was presented with the first evidence that F. Newell Bohnett was logging koa. A letter September 13, 1982 from the artist Herb Kane informed the Board’s Big Island representative that “salvage … Continued
The state has been more than generous in its dealings with F. Newell Bohnett. By allowing him to pay back rent owed from 1980 to 1985 without interest on the accumulated amount ($400,140), the state has enriched Bohnett by roughly … Continued
This edition of Environment Hawai`i is a case history of the management of a substantial property owned by the state but run like a medieval fiefdom. It would take a corps of researchers far greater than ours to determine if … Continued
In Kona the forest must be right in the line of settlement, and not on the tops of mountains as in other districts, for there is no watershed here. We must have moisture for water, and naturally we must have … Continued