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- 05/20/21-WAIKĪKĪ BEACH MAINTENANCE PROJECT COMPLETE(Waikīkī) – Just in time for the upcoming summer season, the Waikīkī Beach Maintenance project to restore and rejuvenate Waikīkī is complete. The 14-week-long recurring maintenance retrieved marine sand from a large sand field in shallow waters about 1,000-feet offshore. The project has roughly doubled the beach width on most sections of the Royal Hawaiian Beach cell between the Royal Hawaiian Hotel and Kūhiō Beach Park.
- 05/20/21-WITNESS TO AFTERMATH OF MOTHER SEAL ATTACK DESCRIBES HARROWING INJURIES TO KAUA‘I SNORKELER(HONOLULU) – Dec. 22, 2009, is a day seared in Earl Miyamoto’s memory. He was on “pup watch,” keeping a close eye on a mother Hawaiian monk seal and her newborn on a remote beach in the Poʻipū area of Kaua‘i.
- 05/19/21-SAILBOAT CAUSING REEF DAMAGE REMOVED AND IMPOUNDED(Līhuʻe) – Personnel from three DLNR divisions participated in a challenging operation yesterday, to remove an unattended, illegally moored, 29-foot sailboat from the South Shore Ocean Recreation Management Area (ORMA) on Kaua‘i.
- 05/19/21-INSTREAM FLOWS SET FOR TRADITIONAL KALO FARMING COMMUNITIES ON KAUA‘I AND MAUIHONOLULU – With support of written and virtual testimony from cultural practitioners, lineal descendants, keiki and kupuna on the importance of stream flow to support their livelihood and the ‘āina, the Hawai‘i Commission on Water Resource Management adopted instream flow standards for Wai‘oli Stream, in Halele‘a, North Kaua‘i, and for Honokōhau, Honolua, and Kaluanui Streams in West Maui.
- 05/18/21-EMERGENCY RESTORATION ACTION SAVES BROKEN CORAL(Honolulu) – In an effort to salvage highly valuable corals severely damaged in Honolulu Harbor’s channel, the DLNR Division of Aquatic Resources (DAR) has taken emergency action to recover as many living pieces as possible. The damage took place two weeks ago and was caused by a dredging platform’s anchor and cable dragging over numerous coral colonies.
- 05/17/21-OPENING OF WAILUA FOREST MANAGEMENT ROAD “LOOP ROAD”(Līhuʻe) – Adventurers seeking to access remote areas in central Kauaʻi can now do so with caution, thanks to the re-opening of the Wailua Forest Management Road. The road, better known as “Loop Road” has been closed following flood damage in 2018. Repairs to the road have been managed by the DLNR Division of Forestry and Wildlife (DOFAW) with contractor Waʻalani Enterprise.
- 05/15/21-MAN CITED FOR TAKING 378 ‘OPIHI FROM MARINE LIFE CONSERVATION DISTRICT (HONOLULU) – Community members reported a man taking ‘opihi (limpets) from shoreline rocks within the Pūpūkea Marine Life Conservation District (MLCD). Friday afternoon, a DLNR Division of Conservation and Resources (DOCARE) officer cited 55-year-old Roland Ching for violating Hawai‘i Administrative Rules relating to prohibited activities within the MLCD. He has no local address.
- 05/14/21-LARGEST BLNR FINE IN HAWAI‘I HISTORY LEVELED AGAINST HAWAI‘I ISLAND MAN IN PRAWN POISONING CASE(HONOLULU) – Today, the Board of Land and Natural Resources (BLNR) fined 54-year-old Wayne Keaulana Spatz, of Hilo, $633,840 for pouring poison into Pāheʻeheʻe Stream in North Hilo resulting in the deaths of an estimated 6,250 Tahitian prawns. This is the largest BLNR fine ever for an aquatic resource violation in the state.
- 05/13/21-DREDGING OPERATIONS IN HARBOR CHANNEL CAUSE SERIOUS CORAL DAMAGE(HONOLULU) – The State is investigating the circumstances associated with what is described as significant damage to corals and live rock near the entrance channel to Honolulu Harbor. The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers contracted dredging work to the Healy Tibbets Corporation. It is alleged the contractor dragged the dredging platform’s anchor and cable across coral colonies and deposited dredged material on corals.
- 05/11/21-LEGISLATURE SUPPORTS CLEAN-UP AT PU‘U WA‘AWA‘A FOREST RESERVE (Pu‘u Wa‘awa‘a Forest Reserve, Hawai‘i Island) – The first scenes for hikers intending to ascend the Pu‘u Wa‘awa‘a cinder cone, do not exactly depict a pristine forest reserve. Remnants of former industrial uses of the property, scattered across the landscape near the beginning of the 3.2-mile-long trail, were the focus of a 2009 Environmental Site Assessment, conducted by the USDA Forest Service Enterprise Program.