An Interview with Biologist Stuart Pimm For 15 years, biologist Stuart Pimm studied Hawaiian birds. He no longer works in Hawai`i, but Pimm credits his years here with changing his approach to science. Watching critters go extinct virtually under his … Continued
Draft rules, a draft environmental impact statement, and projects whose scope and impacts remain inscrutable to all but the contractors and their government supervisors. That, in a nutshell, describes the nature of the work being done in Hilo in the … Continued
O`ahu `Elepaio Mary Kawena Pukui cites a Hawaiian proverb, Ho`okolo aku i ka nui manu. Go inquire of the other birds. Go and consult others, and in her gloss on its origin, a mischievous `elepaio plays the starring role: One … Continued
November 2000: A storm moving in from the Eastern Pacific in late October has left the eastern slopes of Mauna Kea and Mauna Loa waterlogged from the tree line down to the coast. By November 1, when a second storm … Continued