Pu`uwa`awa`a Council Deadline Nears; Foundation Withdraws Financial Support April 15 is more than the deadline for filing your federal taxes; it’s also the deadline for applying for a position on the Department of Land and Natural Resources’ advisory council for … Continued
In May, Environment Hawai`i reported on the apparent targeting of swordfish by Honolulu longliners nominally fishing for tuna in the North Pacific. At the June meeting of the Western Pacific Regional Fishery Management Council, a memo from the senior enforcement … Continued
Ae`o: Hawaiian Stilt In traditional Hawaiian society, one of the many ways children amused themselves was by walking on wooden stilts. The stilts were called kukuluae`o and made from `ohe (Reynoldsia sandwicensis) wood.1 Kukuluae`o is also one of the names … Continued
In April 1997, Environment Hawai`i pulled the lid off what appeared to be a slush fund for the state’s effort to build an irradiation facility in Hilo, which would have allowed the export of Hawai`i’s fruit-fly infested produce. The Exotic … Continued
The years-long free-for-all for control over natural resources in the Northwestern Hawaiian Island archipelago took another twist recently, when the acting regional administrator for the National Marine Fisheries Service’s Southwest Region rejected an important section of the Western Pacific Regional … Continued