At a public meeting with South Maui residents, MECO agreed to move the substation mauka of Kamali’i Elementary School and to consider undergrounding the wires mauka of Pi’ilani Hwy.
Honey Bees
From Danielle DowneyApiculture Specialist Hawaii Department of Agriculture/ The Hawaii Apiary Program is hosting expert collaborators to improve honey bee health in Hawaii. Please join us to hear about this work, there will be a public presentation this Tuesday at Maui Community College, 5pm in Ka Lama 103. Hawaii Apiary Specialist Danielle Downey will describe Hawaii […]
NY Times on Monk Seal Killings
Who Would Kill a Monk Seal? “ The most recent wave of Hawaiian-monk-seal murders began on the island of Molokai in November 2011. An 8-year-old male seal was found slain on a secluded beach. A month later, the body of a female, not yet 2 years old, turned up in the same area. Then, in early […]
Group Wants Humpback Whales Delisted
Hawaii Fishermen’s Alliance for Conservation and Tradition Inc., a group apparently led by Kailua-Kona fisherman Phil Fernandez , filed a petition to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration last month to delist Humpback Whales from the endangered species list. Mr. Fernandez has also objected to Monk Seal protections and advocated re-opening the Northwest islands to fishing (See […]
Malama Oneloa Cleanup
Save Makena.org, a project of Maui Tomorrow Foundation, invites visitors and community members to help care for Oneloa (“Big Beach”), at Makena State Park on Saturday, May 18, 2013. The Malama Oneloa morning cleanup will meet at the park’s second entrance parking at 9am. Volunteers will remove alien plants and clean the beach and wooded […]
EPA Will Hold Workshop on Maui
Environmental Protection Agency officials are planning to conduct a series of public workshops focusing on “Green Street Strategies” and “Sustainable Strategies for Small Town and Rural Areas” and will hold a presentation from 5:30 to 7:30 p.m. Tuesday at the Kahului Community Center. Maui County is one of 56 communities across the nation that will […]