What Natural Area Reserves are to state land, Natural Area Partnerships are to privately owned land: those areas where the natural resource values are so high and rare that they warrant the highest levels of protection the state can offer. … Continued
Management plans for Pu’u Maka’ala prepared a decade ago called for controlling pigs through a combination of hunt–ing (including staff hunting) and snaring. Since then, public hunting has occurred, but the first snare has yet to be set. Still, snaring … Continued
If there was a time when pigs were allowed to roam free and unfettered on the Big Island, it wasn’t during the first half of this century. A glimpse of how feral animals were managed between 1912 and 1946 can … Continued
When the state established the Natural Area Reserves System, its sponsors envisioned a growing, dynamic system. By 1978, approximately sixty sites had been nominated for inclusion in the system. Of those, 34 were forwarded by the NARS commission to the … Continued
U.S. District Judge Samuel P. King has denied the requests of hunters and the state of Hawai’i to stop the court-ordered eradication of sheep from an area of Mauna Kea, on the island of Hawai’i, that is critical habitat for … Continued
The rainforest that spreads across the eastern flank of Mauna Loa is unlike any other. Where the Amazon’s sweep seems uniform, the Big Island’s native rainforest is a mosaic. The pieces are biologically distinct from each other because they were … Continued