[CPEO-MEF] MUNITIONS, NATURAL RESOURCES: "Kahoolawe [HI] restoration work finally set to resume"

[Lenny Siegel <LSiegel@cpeo.org>]

After more than a year, Kahoolawe restoration work finally set to resume

By Mark Carpenter
Hawaii News Now
June 1, 2021 
HONOLULU - Restoration work is set to begin again on Kahoolawe after a large brushfire scorched a third of the island and the pandemic reduced volunteer efforts.

This fall, the Kahoolawe Island Reserve Commission will oversee a 14-month initiative centered on improving the island’s water quality and reducing sediment runoff.

“The surface of the island, if you can see behind me, is all that red hardpan,” said KIRC Executive Director Michael Nahoopii.

“That is all the exposed soil that’s on the island. For over 200 years, the goats ate most of the vegetation on the island and what was left was just the bare dirt and after the wind would come through, they would blow all the soil off the island.”


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For the entire article, see
https://www.hawaiinewsnow.com/2021/06/02/after-more-than-a-year-kahoolawe-restoration-work-finally-set-to-resume/

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Lenny Siegel
Executive Director
Center for Public Environmental Oversight
A project of the Pacific Studies Center
LSiegel@cpeo.org
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Author: DISTURBING THE WAR: The Inside Story of the Movement to Get Stanford University out of Southeast Asia - 1965–1975 (See http://a3mreunion.org)

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