Land Board Reverses Action To Cancel Ke’ehi Marine Lease The controversial lease of state land to Ke’ehi Marine, Inc., is still in effect, despite action of the Board of Land and Natural Resources to cancel it last April. Readers of … Continued
Boating Division Can’t Keep Track Of Accounts, It Admits to Land Board The Board of Land and Natural Resources has ordered its Division of Boating and Ocean Recreation to prepare a report on the problems the division is having in … Continued
Land Board Settles DHHL Claims With Transfer of Five More Parcels On April 9, 1998, the Land Board voted to amend a four-year old land agreement between the Department of Land and Natural Resources and the Department of Hawaiian Homelands … Continued
Kama`aina Kids Chosen to Replace Friends to Run He`eia State Park Had they known it would end up this way, they probably wouldn’t have done it. Earlier this year, members of the state Board of Land and Natural Resources directed … Continued
Land Board Extends Deadlines to Complete Timber Mill It’s been about a decade since the state Board of Land and Natural Resources issued a timber land license to Tradewinds Forest Products, LLC, to log a portion of the state’s Waiakea … Continued
Board Discussion of Mauna Kea Plan Hints at Controversies Yet to Come “Mauna Kea is where heaven, earth and stars find union. Not just any heaven, but Wakea, not just any earth, but Papahanaumoku, and not just any constellation of … Continued
A wrong date that appeared in the printed version has been corrected. O`ahu Men Are Fined $3,050 Each For Raiding Maui Stones for Imu On July 11, the state Board of Land and Natural Resources fined Hawai`i Superferry passengers Charlie … Continued
Nature Conservancy Withdraws from Honouliuli The Nature Conservancy of Hawai`i has decided to refocus its management efforts on intact native habitats. And because its 3,600-acre Honouliuli preserve contains a mix of native and non-native habitat, TNCH asked the state Department … Continued
No Permits for Vacation Rentals in Conservation District To young Leah Suesen, the thought of her hometown becoming a “horizontal hotel” scares her. Suesen, one of more than 100 Ha`ena residents opposed to the proliferation of vacation rentals there, asked … Continued
Imperium Renewables, LLC, a company based in Washington state, has been granted a 35-year lease at O`ahu’s Kalaeloa Harbor, where it plans to produce some 100 million gallons of biodiesel each year. Once it completes its processing facility in 2009, … Continued