The State Department of Health has released the 2008/2010 State of Hawaii Water Quality Monitoring and Assessment Report for public review. The comment period has been extended until January 31, 2012. http://hawaii.gov/health/environmental/water/cleanwater/pubntcs/index.html The federal Clean Water Act requires the state to monitor the quality of water in streams, wetlands, and oceans; to assess whether the […]
Be a Water Quality Measurement Person
Is the ocean water near you brown from runoff and sedimentation? Would you like to help document what’s going on via citizen science efforts? The community-based Turbidity Task Force on Maui is a way to do so… It’s really simple… grab a sample of water, collect some information, and bring it to the Killa Wiffa […]
Monk Seal Plan Should Be Supported
Maui Tomorrow Foundation supports the draft programmatic environmental impact statement for the Hawaiian Monk Seal Recovery Plan. The most controversial (and most misunderstood) action in the plan, Alternative 4, includes an option to temporarily move weaned pups from the Northwestern Hawaiian Islands. Only a limited number of healthy female pups would be brought to the […]
DLNR Meetings This Saturday!
Tell DLNR that you support Maui Nui being chosen as the start up site for DOCARE’s fisheries enforcement’s pilot project. Lahaina 12pm. Kahului 2:30pm.
Planner: Maui Shorelines Impaired by Development
Because more and more of Maui’s sandy shorelines are being “impaired” by development and uncontrollable environmental issues, laws and procedures to protect the environment must be followed, county and state officials said Wednesday morning. “We want to develop in an environmentally sensible way,” said Maui County coastal resource planner Jim Buika. Buika said that according […]
Monk Seals on Verge of Extinction
by AUDREY McAVOY, Associated Press HONOLULU (AP) — The Hawaiian monk seal — the nation’s most imperiled marine mammal — is on the verge of getting its own emergency room. A California-based nonprofit with decades of experience caring for marine mammals aims to break ground next year on a hospital and rehabilitation center in Kailua-Kona […]