AG Finds No Legal Basis for Extension Of Draft EIS Public Comment Periods Developers who want to allow increased opportunity for the public to comment on draft environmental impact statements do so at their own legal peril, the state Department … Continued
Discussion Draft: Conservation District Management Plan. Robin Foster, PlanPacific, Inc., for the state Department of Land and Natural Resources. October 1997. Available from Island Printing Center, 737 Bishop Street, Honolulu; $22.68 plus postage (telephone: 523-0902). For the last four and … Continued
If the U.S. Department of Agriculture has its way, yet another alien species may call Hawai’i home in the near future. According to a draft environmental assessment prepared last July by the USDA, the U.S. Forest Service (an arm of … Continued
For fiscal year 1998, brown tree snake pro–grams in Guam and Hawai’i have received the biggest sum of federal funds yet appropri–ated to the problems posed by this snake: about $1.6 million. Half of that is to go to the … Continued
Hawai`i and virtually all other oceanic Pacific islands lack native terrestrial snakes. Consequently, the native birds lack adaptive behaviors to deal with these predators. The apparently inadvertent introduction of the brown tree snake (Boiga irregularis) into Guam well illustrates the … Continued
Sixty-three snakes have been confiscated, turned in to the state or caught in the wild in Hawai`i between July 26, 1994, and February 4, 1998. Only one of them was a brown tree snake, caught in a Schofield Barracks warehouse … Continued