Board Denies Koa Loggers’ Attempt To Subtract Restoration Costs From Fine If Koa Timber and its partner Hawai’i Forest Preservation LLC had their way, they would submit a detailed forest restoration plan to the Board of Land and Natural Resources, … Continued
Waging pretend war is becoming popular on O`ahu’s lush northeastern landscape. In the last couple of years, war movies starring Nicholas Cage and Bruce Willis, filmed at Kualoa and Waikane, made rubber-neckers out of anyone driving the winding two-lane road … Continued
As wave after wave of alien species hits the shores of Hawai`i, advancing like the Allied troops on Omaha Beach, defending against the weeds that made headlines yesterday seems, well, as out of fashion as bustles and leg-o-mutton sleeves. Miconia, … 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
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
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 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
Hi`ilawe and Hakalaoa falls, the legendary pair of nosebleed-high cascades in Waipi`o Valley, should be restored to full glory by the end of July, thanks to a sudden turnabout by Kamehameha Schools that caught the state Water Commission off guard. … Continued
State Water Commission, Land Board Have Lost Sight of Their Mandates The long wait is almost over. If all goes according to plan, by mid-summer, the twin falls at the back of Waipi`o Valley should be restored. The picture-postcard-perfect vista … Continued
Ever since Jodie Foster starred in Contact, the search for extraterrestrial life forms has been a popular preoccupation. But a few dozen marine biologists and oceanographers are excited by amazing discoveries of life forms right under our noses — under … Continued