SIERRA CLUB M!lama I Ka Honua Cherish the Earth JOURNAL OF THE SIERRA CLUB, HAWAI`I CHAPTER
A Quarterly Newsletter! July - September 2011
Planting Native Diary of a lobyist Nate’s Adventures Gift Cards Without the Outings! Discover this “fishy” Join Nathan Yuen as Plastic? native plant. Joy Leilei Shih describes he describes a search Interested in getting her humorous lobbying for Native Tree Snails Learn about a new tool outdoors this summer? experiences at the and Happy Face to avoid the use of Looking to meet new Capitol this year on a Spiders in the plastic gift cards people? Join a Sierra SAVE A TREE! bill that would have Mokule’ia Forest through the use of a Club hike or activity on placed a small fee on Reserve. Page 6 smartphone your island! Receive your Malama most paper and plastic application. electronically by going bags given away in the Pages 14-15, 17, or 21 to state. Page 8 www.sierraclubhawaii. Page 3 com/newsletter Page 4
might even throw in a gratuitous (see the diary of one of these terri c “don’t forget to donate to the Club” to volunteers on page 4). support next year’s e orts. Hint, hint. Capitol As to the second point, thanks to your As to the rst point, our volunteers assistance, the Club successfully DID do an astounding job. Our stopped several bills that would have Watch Capitol Watch team (chaired by limited the public’s ability to Anthony Aalto) tracked thousands of participate in decision making. One bills, sent out 26 “Insider” emails in particular, HB 376, would have Shines updating folks on the Capitol Watch automatically approved all business Sierra Club Capitol Watch Team Shines on the status of upcoming hearings, permits, licenses, approvals within But Legislators Play Political Baseball and organized testimony on hundreds thirty days if the agency failed to take of key environmental bills. One action or pass rules granting them by Robert D. Harris renewable energy developer actually additional time. Such a bill, if passed noted that the Sierra Club updates would have created a nightmare Typically, in wrapping up the were “better than the ones he got situation were projects could sneak legislative session, I’d (1) spend a bit from his paid lobbyist.” through without consideration of the of time highlighting the amazing merits. e orts of our volunteers, (2) discuss e terri c Capitol Watch volunteers some of the bad bills the Club are energetic, passionate, and on the However, a number of terri c bills defeated, and then (3) highlight the cusp of starting a movement that will died because of a game of political best environmental bills passed. I only grow bigger and better with time Continued on page 10
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I recently had the good fortune to visit both the Sequoia and Yosemite National Parks for the rst time. Simply astounding. We’re very fortunate to have such an amazing collection of roaring rivers and waterfalls, snow capped peaks and pristine valleys lled with ancient forests preserved for all of the world to enjoy and explore. M!lama I Ka Honua Enjoying the beauty of Yosemite, I had the occasion to re ect upon the Sierra Club’s long and rich tradition of protecting wild places for the enjoyment of all. Protection of our natural areas has been a struggle. e Club’s founder, John Muir, ! The M!lama I Ka Honua is observed over a hundred years ago: published quarterly by the Hawai‘i Chapter of the Sierra Club, P.O. Box “In these ravaging money-mad days monopolizing San Francisco 2577, Honolulu, HI 96803. A small capitalists are now doing their best to destroy Yosemite Park, the portion of the annual Sierra Club most wonderful of all our great mountain national parks.” dues goes toward a one-year subscription. “ e Hetch-Hetchy Valley,” Sierra Club Bulletin, January 1908, 211. ! Contribution of news, opinion, art, I nd it equally heartening and disheartening that we seem to visit similar battles and photography may be sent many generations later. While Yosemite’s preservation seems currently assured, electronically to Hawai‘i is locked into a cycle of neglecting our parks and conservation areas. In a hawaii[email protected] or by report recently issued by the Department of Land and Natural Resources, the post c/o the Hawai‘i Chapter, P.O. DLNR included numerous photographs and opined: Box 2577, Honolulu, HI 96803. ! Submissions must be received by Our State recreational facilities provide residents and visitors with the 1st of the month prior to the date healthy activities and access to sustenance for hikers, shers, of publication. hunters and gatherers. ! Articles, graphics, and photos are But if our residents, small businesses and tourism industry rely copyrighted by the authors and artists upon these places, how come they look so junk? and may be reprinted only with permission. Our parks and conservation reserves were set aside to ensure future generations can see Hawai‘i’s unique and fragile beauty. But we’re currently failing to allocate the ! The M!lama is printed on recycled funding needed to ensure they’re protected. Endangered species are disappearing, paper. Please recycle it again! popular trails are falling into disrepair, and miles of coastline are increasingly at risk Members may elect to only receive an from the impacts of development and sea-level rise. And with the current budget electronic subscription of the M!lama de cit, it doesn’t appear the problem will get better anytime soon. I Ka Honua at sierraclubhawaii.com/ malama. We can take satisfaction in John Muir’s and the Sierra Club’s legacy. It’s proof that a broad, grass-roots coalition of individuals can have success in preserving wild Advertisement Rates are: places despite the e orts of “money-mad . . . monopolizing” capitalists. I hope you’ll join us in speaking out and encouraging our legislature to be creative in • Full page ($350) breaking the cycle of blame and neglect in order to ensure future generations can • Half page ($250) enjoy Hawai‘i’s natural resources. As you take a little bit of time this summer to • 1/4 page ($110) enjoy the outdoors, don’t forget to spend a few minutes calling your legislator to • 1/8 page ($60) ask why the state doesn’t do a better job of protecting our natural resources. • Bus. Cards ($50)
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Planting Native by Rick Barboza
'Aweoweo Chenopodium oahuense
Endemic: Kaua’i; O’ahu; Moloka’i; Maui; Lana’i; Hawai’i; plus Lisianski; Laysan; Necke; French Frigate Shoals; and Nihoa. But, you have to crush it first. You don't have to With all the news about people fishing for worry about the plant smelling up your yard. 'Aweoweo (Priacanthus spp.) at He'eia pier and all over the islands a few years ago, I thought it Distribution: 'Aweoweo, the plant not the fish, would be interesting to share with people is found in drier, harsh habitats like near the information of this Hawaiian plant with the ocean, in the lowland dry forest or all the way same name. If you're wondering why a fish and up in the sub-alpine shrub land of the large a plant would have the same Hawaiian name volcanoes like Mauna Kea. Although its species then you must go all the way back to the name is oahuense, this endemic plant is found beginning: The Kumulipo. In this Hawaiian on all of the main Hawaiian Islands except creation chant many things are created in a Kaho'olawe (it was probably found there before) dualistic manner meaning that when one thing but also on most of the Northwestern Hawaiian is created in the ocean, there is often a counter islands as well. part created on land or in the air or both! Landscape use and care: This plant is bullet Description: ‘Aweoweo are typically low shrubs proof! It likes full sun, and little to no watering to small trees 2-8ft. tall with light blue/green once established. There are also hardly any leaves that are in the shape of a goose's foot bugs that attack this plant either. Sometimes (they belong to the goose foot plant family you may notice some scale or aphids but this Chenopodiacae). Sometimes the leaves can be can be easily removed by hand or by spraying very tiny, about #"-1/2" across or they can be up off with water. to 2 inches depending on the growing conditions. Usually less water and more sun Cultural Uses: The young leaves and stems are will result in smaller, thicker leaves whereas wrapped in ti leaves and steamed to be eaten in regular watering will make the plant have larger times of famine. The harder wood at the base of more thin leaves like in the picture. The flowers the plant can also be shaped in to fish hooks so are very small and are in clusters above the you can catch 'aweoweo with 'aweoweo. plant. The older stems are usually streaked with red, similar to the fish, but also, when the Additional Info: Other names for this plant leaves and flowers are crushed it smells just like include: ‘Aheahea, ‘ahea, ‘ahewahewa, alaweo, the ‘aweoweo fish too! fo' real! I not joking! alaweo huna (Ni’ihau), kaha’iha’i.
Rick Barboza co-owns Hui Ku Maoli Ola, a native Hawaiian plant nursery, with Matt Schirman. Contact him at 295-7777 [email protected]
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Joy Leilei Shih is a suffocation by marine debris. In bill, often of the Type 1 or Type 2 dynamic volunteer other words, it’s a no-brainer. variety. Here’s how it might go: with the Sierra Club’s Capitol Watch program. She’s the Eager and bright-eyed, you are “We’re asking for your support on Captain of the unaware that you are about to SB 1363.” “Opala” section: monitoring and encounter one of three types of “Ah, yes the plastic bag ban.” advocating for bills legislators. Let’s call them: “Actually, it’s a fee, a more moderate that reduce Hawai‘i’s but effective way to address a critical growing waste problem. Type 1- Against your bill environmental issue, but people still Below is a witty summary of her lobbying Type 2- Falsely claims to support have the choice on whether they experiences at the Capitol this year on a bill that your bill, or, supports it but is too - want to take a bag or not.” would have placed a small fee on most paper and bleep- to publicly support it “How will people manage to carry plastic bags given away in the state. (functionally equivalent) their groceries? And also, small Type 3 (theoretical)- Supports your businesses will go out of business.” bill, and is willing to see it through “Well, folks can bring reusable bags, You remind yourself politicians are or they can still choose to take a people who care. You’ve managed to finesse an disposable bag for 10 cents. And appointment with your businesses will actually save on not The average person uses hundreds of Representative or Senator of interest having to provide as many bags.” plastic bags a year. With over a by using the smooth, persuasive “I don’t see how it’ll work. But I’ll million people in the Aloha State, technique you’ve perfected in bars think about it. Time’s up!” that’s hundreds of millions of plastic for individuals of interest. You’ve bags used for a brief moment before buttered up the assistants, and Or one of a few fates: blowing out over probably said something desperate the Pacific, getting stashed with like, “Wednesday at 11:30? Yep, “Can you share your concerns about other bags in the kitchen drawer, or that’s perfect, it’s right between my SB 1363?” being burned at H-Power. Although two midterms* that day.” “We need the plastic bags to burn at a plastic bag ban would be ideal and H-Power.” feasible- cities and entire countries Having scrounged up the two more “But H-power is already burning at around the world have pulled it off- quarters you need from under your maximum capacity, and Hawaii is Hawaii’s single-use bag offset fee car seat for the meter of the unlikely trying to move towards renewable bill, SB 1363 would have placed a parking spot you found at the sources of energy.” small fee on disposable checkout Capitol, you reflect on your pitch to “I’m not going to support something bags, encouraging consumers to the legislator during the eight that’s going to cause power bring reusable bags, but leaving the minute elevator trip just to get to the outages.” option to take a plastic or paper bag second or third floor. By minute six, Awkward silence. if needed. Such a fee would generate you remind yourself the dungeon- “Well, I hope you will consider revenue for the State’s anemic like stairwells are a better option. supporting the bill.” budget, reduce greenhouse gases from production, transport, and And at times, a dungeon-like march You may be searching for a glimmer burning of bags, alleviate is apropos. While some legislators of hope after a five-meeting losing environmental impacts, and avoid already support the bill or are streak, so just remember, in the event the deaths of millions of marine actually receptive to reason, the you hear a notoriously unreliable animals through ingestion and focus is necessarily on key legislators committee chair say, “Yes, your bill with the power to move or stall a
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will be heard in my committee!” there is a good chance it’s actually Opposite Day.
But, in 2011, the bag bill moved farther than it ever has before, nearly making Hawaii the first to have statewide legislation addressing plastic bags. It raised public awareness, and set the stage to make it likely to happen next year. I feel this wave of zeitgeist coming, and I plan to ride it all the way in.
I never envisioned myself as a lobbyist, until a friend called me just that at the end of the legislative session. I am a scientist and mischievous outdoor lover to the core, and it feels like one day I woke up and by doing something I care about, I had morphed into a lobbyist. Scientists are notoriously bad at articulating thoughts, and what makes me a viable lobbyist is not a law or marketing background, nor any type of compensatory encouragement. Friends and acquaintances fondly dub me as Miss Optimistic (maybe there is a homonym or double entendre in there somewhere), but my life’s modus operandi is to wholeheartedly pursue a hope until it literally ceases to exist. Without some form of rose-colored lenses or a strong willingness to persevere, lobbying is probably not your cup of tea. Although at the Hawaii State Capitol, you’re likely to be offered a cup of hot chocolate or saimin.
* I was taking graduate-level classes at the time.
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Nate’s Joining me in the day’s adventure was long and was primarily brown in color Karen Liliker and Stuart Ball. If the with a white stripe that spiraled up the Adventures name “Stuart Ball” rings a bell, its shell. by Nate Yuen because he’s the author of “Hiker’s Guide to Oahu” and “Backpacker’s Guide to Hawaii”, the best books for serious hikers and backpackers in Hawaii. I was pleased to have two additional pairs of very capable eyes along with me in the search. Native Tree Snails and Pahole Natural Area Reserve ranges in Happy Face Spiders in the elevation from about 1,200 to 2,590 feet Mokule’ia Forest Reserve and receives an average annual rainfall of 57 to 66 inches — making the reserve a We searched the mesic forests of the mesic forest. As we made our way along Mokule’ia Forest Reserve to search for the trail by the fence line we looked on We were thrilled when we saw a smaller native tree snails and happy face spiders. the backside of leaves to look for snails snail about half-an-inch long crawling — who usually sleep during the day. about on the leaves. Although they are It was a misty and overcast morning as mostly nocturnal, kahuli will sometimes we hiked in Pahole Natural Area Reserve come out of their shells during the day — which was established in 1981 and — especially when the vegetation is was carved from the larger Mokule’ia damp from low-lying clouds and early Forest Reserve that surrounds it. Pahole morning mists that condense as moisture is critical habitat for the endangered on the vegetation. O‘ahu tree snail, O‘ahu ‘elepaio, and dozens of rare native plants and animals.
While watching the kahuli crawl over the leaf, I listened carefully for any sounds the snail might make. According to tradition, kahuli “sing”, “chirp” or “whistle”, but I did not hear any sound After searching within the foliage for as it glided over the the surface. After quite some time we were thrilled to find watching and listening for nearly 30 a kahuli or O’ahu Tree Snail (Achatinella minutes I lost patience and we moved on mustelina) on the branches of an olopua — watching a snail crawl is only a little tree (Nestigis sanwichensis). Endemic more interesting than watching grass only to the island of O’ahu, the adult grow. snail was about three-quarters of an inch
Nathan Yuen is an artist/photographer /naturalist whose body of work is a confluence of hiking, conservation, and fine art photography. Each weekend you can find him hiking, backpacking or kayaking to out-of-the-way locations to photograph Hawaii’s native plants and animals, many of which are rare or endangered. His goal is to showcase these biological treasures to give you a reason to protect them for future generations. Nathan has a website at HawaiianForest.com where you can see his art and read about his adventures. 6 ! July - September 2011 M!lama I Ka Honua HAWAII CHAPTER
one we would find for the day! Happy face spiders are unique in the spider world in that they are the only spider that protects and rears its young. All other spiders lay eggs and never return — leaving the offspring to fend for themselves. Happy face spiders protect their eggs, catch food for their young, and raise them until they are old enough to survive on their own.
One of the spiders we found, had a much more elaborate black and red pattern on its abdomen, but also did With the kahuli found, the next leg of not exhibit a “smiley face”. Unlike the Stuart found two spiders on the our adventure was to begin – searching others who remained completely backside of a kopiko leaf (Psychotria for happy face spiders. As made our stationary, this spider was more bashful mariniana) which we believe had way along the trail, we searched for the and crawled away to the underside of amorous intentions. They were very spiders whose bodies are a little smaller the leave whenever we turned in over. close together with their long legs than a grain of rice and have really long So we ended up chasing the spider touching when we found them. We thin legs that make the combined several times around the leaf. suspect we caught them just before they length of the spider almost three- were about to mate. quarters of an inch long. All in all we found 8 adult spiders one Eagle-eyed Karen Liliker spotted the of which had 10 spiderlings on the first happy face spide. Known as backside of the leaves. As we made our nananana maka ki’i in Hawaiian, these way back to camp I reflected on our spiders (Theridion grallator) are good fortune seeing these cool little endemic to the Hawaiian Islands and critters in the Mokule’ia Forest Reserve can be found on the larger islands. The and capturing my first video of them in first spider we saw had 6 dots on its the native forests. What an awesome abdomen. There is wide variation in the hike! pattern on the topside of the spider’s abdomen — it has been my experience that most of them do not have a smiley face pattern. The pattern on the spider’s abdomen is so small that I am only able to tell what the pattern is by magnifying the digital image in the viewer of the camera.
Karen found a mother spider with baby spiderlings! And the mother had a smiley face on its abdomen — the only
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Gift Cards, Without the Plastic?
by Brian Foley because they get lost or forgotten. I'm pretty sure I have a drawer full Gift cards are all the craze: ey're of them at home. e eco- fast, easy, and convenient. But admit friendliness came along with this it: Plastic is practically a four-letter idea." word. One plastic card might not seem like Don't fret. GiftRocket, a start-up much. But one analysis found that company, takes the card out of gift one card with PVC translates into a cards. And the product works for carbon footprint of 21 grams, or the almost all businesses, even those that amount of gas needed to drive a don't normally o er gift cards. How Hummer 150 feet. does it work? Log onto GiftRocket, then choose a dollar amount for a Considering that a typical plastic particular place, and name the gift card lasts up to only three years recipient. Your recipient then gets an before getting buried in a land ll — email about the gift. With and the fact that we go through so smartphone in hand, the recipient many of them — the green rap on heads to the store or restaurant to these plastic pleasures isn't so good. redeem your generous gesture via the press of a button. After that, your e gift-card industry rakes in more recipient gets a PayPal credit to than $80 billion per year. GiftRocket cover the cost. estimates that in the U.S., about 1.6 Launched in March, the original billion plastic gift cards are produced idea behind GiftRocket was to give and shipped yearly, using more than the gift-card concept more exibility 8,500 tons of PVC. Kale's number- impact of their purchase, since gift and customization. But now that the crunching found that gift cards add cards are so commonplace." service is up and running, it's up to more than 33,000 metric tons proving to be a green alternative to of atmospheric carbon — never So if a gift card sounds good as a gift-giving: " e way we thought mind their everlasting lives in Father's Day gift, but Mother about it was that we all had friends land lls. Nature's voice is ringing in your in di erent cities and when their head, consider cutting the plastic out birthdays or graduations came along, "Maybe 100 million will be printed of the picture. we wanted a convenient way to send for Father's Day," Kale said. " e them a meaningful gift," said bigger problem is that people don't --Brian Foley GiftRocket co-founder Kapil Kale. even think about the environmental "We didn't like physical gift cards
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Volunteer Spotlight
The Sierra Club is a volunteer-led organization. The success we achieve each year is because of the tireless efforts of numerous hard-working members. We’d like to spotlight two new interns that are working in the Chapter office -- upcoming faces that hopefully you’ll see leading the Sierra Club Marina in the future. Jeremy Malomud Pollack
Best thing about the Internship: Best thing about the Internship: e best part of the internship is I learn something new about working with people who are really Hawaii everyday. It's also nice to passionate about what they do. e work in an oce with tasty snacks. director, volunteers and my fellow intern are committed to protecting the Favorite special place outside (and why?): environment and their enthusiasm is infectious. It makes for a great workplace. Waimea Bay, North Shore. It's so di erent in the winter and summer, but always beautiful. And I still love jumping o "the rock," it never gets old! Favorite special place outside (and why?): Makapu lighthouse. ere is a nice hiking trail along the water with a What are you doing during your Internship? beautiful view. Developing a proposal for a more e ective legal framework to address beach erosion in Hawaii. Speci cally I am looking for solutions that What are you doing during your Internship? don't involve building seawalls, but rather treat beachfront development as a secondary interest to preserving the beach itself. I'm predominantly researching land use and energy eciency issues, as well as electronic recycling programs, with the intent of suggesting policy to improve on current laws and programs. Wild Card (Something unusual): I once met Bono from U2. I was only 10 years old at the time and Wild Card (Something unusual): didn't really appreciate how cool My only sibling is 18 years my that was! junior. He's smart, funny, and wants to be a scuba diver. Something you'd like to see changed about the world . . . Something you'd like to see changed I'd like to see the world get about the world . . . serious about eliminating extreme I would like to see the end of poverty. I think the international factory farming, the process of community can do much more to raising livestock in dense provide immediate relief to the con nement. most desperate populations. Simple things like investing in cheap and portable water lters or more energy ecient cookstoves could make all the di erence.
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Capitol Watch Shines Good New Laws: • Hand-pounded poi (SB Continued from page 1 to charge small fees to fund the Oce of Environmental Quality 101) Control, a chronically Allows for the preparation and sale baseball. Right after the end of the of hand-pounded poi. Exempts the Legislature, I sent out an email that underfunded and understa ed product from certain Department of summarized the situation like this: agency. Bills like the popular Health requirements regarding food proposed fee on paper/plastic safety, if the produce complies with House leadership, for some bags, which would have provided a health rules. reason, wanted to pass a tax on big new revenue source as well as • Conservation and high-income pensioners. create a big environmental bene t. Resources Enforcement Accordingly, the House Hordes of lobbyists were seen Special Fund (HB 1082) Committee on Finance refused to walking around the capitol in a Establishes the Conservation and sign o on a number of bills. daze. Resources Enforcement Special Fund in the Department of Land and Most observers concluded this Natural Resources for the purpose was intended to force the Senate So what can we do? In the short of setting aside moneys to be used to agree to the pension tax. term, I suggest attending any toward the protection of the State's community meetings your legislator natural, cultural, and historic e Senate refused to go along. might o er. e Sierra Club is resources.! And to increase the pressure, the attempting to partner with several • Renewable Energy (SB Senate announced all bills needed other community organizations to 1482) to be nished before 6:00 pm on give you opportunities to meet with Allows the PUC to consider the Friday, May 6th or the Senate your legislator over the summer. Ask benefits of capital improvements for renewable energy and energy would stop negotiating. your legislator why your favorite bill efficiency despite the short-term didn’t pass? Legislators tend to be expense. Requires the PUC to is type of grandstanding has very reactionary. If constituents are consider the need to reduce the occurred before. When the 6:00 asking about a particular bill, they’re State's reliance on fossil fuels. pm deadline passed, most much more likely to pay attention to observers assumed that one side or it next year. the other, (House or Senate) would blink and a bulk of the bills Who should be held accountable? At Good Bills in conference committee would the end of the day, every legislator then be passed. owes some responsibility for the Before the failure to move any meaningful Governor: To the shock of many, when the environmental legislation. While we two budget committees came back had some terri c champions for the at 9:30 pm they had only passed environment, like Representative • Light Pollution (SB 1493) four or ve revenue bills (not Cynthia ielen and Senator Mike Requires every new and including the tax on pensions) and Gabbard, the reality is the overall replacement outdoor light fixtures promptly declared the session to be fully shielded beginning on July group didn’t do enough. So don’t let 1, 2013, with certain exemptions. over. Numerous bills that had your legislator o the hook. Push Specifies that replacement of existing been held up by the House them and ask what they’ll do to get roadway lighting may be partially leadership simply died. your bill passed next year. shielded under certain conditions.! • On-Bill Financing (HB is result was simply stunning. For next year, we’ll be building upon 1520) Critical bills died without so the Capitol Watch program and Directs the Public Utilities much as a whimper. Bills like the creating more ways for you to Commission (PUC) to investigate an one that would have reallocated participate, so as to ensure more good On-bill Financing Program (Program) income from the barrel tax to fund environmental bills are passed. for residential electric utility clean energy programs and a bill
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customers to finance purchases of energy efficient or renewable energy devices and systems through their Good Bills that Failed to Pass regular electric utility bills. Authorizes PUC to implement a Program by • Funding the Office of Environmental Quality Control (SB 699) decision and order or by rules if the program is found to be viable. Implements the Environmental Review Working Group recommendation to establish a special fund to support the Office of Environmental Quality Control from small fees on • South Kona Wilderness documents submitted to the agency. The OEQC is tasked with reviewing environmental Area (SB 1154) documents and servicing as the public liaison on environmental matters. Historically, the Establishes the south Kona Office has been crippled by a severe lack of funding. Increased support will help improve wilderness area on the island of Hawaii’s environmental review process, to the benefit of both businesses and the public-at- Hawaii to preserve vulnerable visual, large. natural, biological, and historical • Food Sustainability Standards (SB 1145) aspects of South Kona.! This measure created a vision of food self-sufficiency and sets metrics to ensure • Photovoltaic-Ready compliance over time. Specifically, it requires the State to produce: (1)! Twenty per cent of New Residential Homes net food sales by December 31, 2020; (2)! Thirty per cent of net food sales by December (SB 181) 31, 2030; and (3)! Fifty per cent of net food sales by December 31, 2040. It also ties one of A substantially weaker version then the biggest hinderances to food self-sufficiency -- lack of available land -- to the actual the original, which simply required production of food. Failure to achieve the State’s standards would impose a temporary new homes to be "PV-ready."! The moratorium on large agricultural land developments until the standards were achieved. weakened version creates a working • Offset Fee on Single Use Bags (SB 1363) group to study the feasibility of this bill. Created an offset fee for the use of all single use bags (whether paper or plastic) and incentivizes retail stores to encourage the use of less impactful bags. An offset fee smartly creates a direct market reflection of the actual economic and environmental costs created by the abuse of single-use bags in Hawai`i. Single use bags simply are not in Hawai`i’s sustainable future and smart efforts should be made to discourage their continued use. Bad New Laws: • Energy Efficient TVs (HB 1346) Televisions are one of the largest unregulated appliances in the home and represent • Special Management approximately 10% of overall residential electricity use. Many folks would be startled to Areas (HB 117) discover that many large televisions consume more electricity then a refrigerator. This measure required all new TVs sold in Hawaii to meet EnergyStar standards. It had the Increases the threshold between a potential to save annual electric bill savings of around $50,000,000, power savings of 20 "minor" and "major" permit from MW per year, and the prevention of more than 74,000 tons of CO2 per year. $125,000 to $500,000. Minor permits are rarely disclosed to the • Improving the Bottle Bill (SB 178) public in time for any meaningful Extended the deposit beverage container program to include dietary supplements (most discussion, thus potentially resulting energy drinks, like Monster, Red Bull, etc., are technically not in the program even though in more projects built near the they may sometimes be labeled “HI5”), hard spirits, and wine containers. Hawaii’s bottle shoreline without public law has proven to be an overwhelming success for Hawaii’s environment, with over 930 participation.! million bottles and cans diverted from Hawaii’s landfills annually. However, millions of Adds single-family homes for review bottles and containers are not being recycled annually (according to numbers provided by under the coastal zone management the industry, approximately 21,917,760 bottles of wine were sold in Hawaii in 2009). act (yay!), but limits this addition to Including these items into the proven and successful HI5 program would reduce the homes that are bigger then 7,500 amount of opala going into our landfills, produce additional green jobs, and recycle more of square feet. That's such a big number these reusable resources. that it's unlikely this new clause will • Native Plants in Public Landscaping (HB 378) ever be triggered. This bill requires the use of native plants in all public landscaping with certain limited • Public Lands exemptions (such as the use of turf, where no native substitute exists). Advocates for this Development bill opined that it would perpetuate Hawai‘i’s culture and sense of place, advance the cause Corporation (SB 1555) of rare plants found nowhere else in the world, and create new local jobs. Buildings that Creates a Public Land Development form the center of our communities -- like schools and libraries -- and the roads that we Corporation empowered to select travel on could celebrate and perpetuate the unique biota that underlies much of Hawaiian state land to be set aside for culture. development. No cultural or environmental voice or oversight.
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O'ahu Group (SCOG) was extremely Executive Committee Member the swamp," applies to SCOG busy during the early parts of the 2nd Anthony Aalto has consistently and ExCom: quarter of 2011 - - breaking for with good articulation kept SCOG various graduations, and professional focus on "livable O'ahu in the 21st ere are at least a dozen projects, on reasons during much of May. Century:" our table or knocking at our door at present. Many want time to share e highlight of SCOG was a • e need to preserve and protect their mana'o on RAIL, Waikiki weekend session at Richardson Law agricultural lands, open space, Beach, Ho'opili, Koa Ridge, bees, axis School facilities led by Greg Casini parks, and beaches, deer, and the ever-present issue of of the SIERRA CLUB. Greg is an Kaka'ako Makai and knock on our e ective "focus" person in leading the • e need to rethink density from "door" weekly by asking Robert if group through a carefully-crafted the "single-family-detached- they could come and talk a bit. process of creative, relevant strategic dwelling" model to cluster, high planning. So many organizations are rise, garden, and townhouse styles, e current Executive Committee is vague about their "vision" (why are a delightful blend of the old and new, we here and what if we were not?). • e need to support true RAPID young and experienced, and a shared us "mission" (goals, objective, mass transit ( eBus o ers mass commitment to making O'ahu a projects) are scattered and perceived transit currently, but buses are Livable and environmentally as busy work. On the other hand, usually stuck in trac), respectful urban space in the 21st large-scope and long term "missions" Century. for Sierra Club O'ahu Group are not • Water sourcing, use, and recycling, easily explained, de ned, nor "sold" to Respectfully, the Membership as an on-going Sierra Club O`ahu Group e ort....in other words, "the really big • Energy dependence on oil to begin picture items" are a hard sell. an actual decline,
One feeling of SCOG Executive e list is longer but not necessary Committee is that the energy which here. Oahu Group draws and impels hikers and outings enthusiasts is rarely focused on SCOG Executive Committee is Executive environmental issues and support considering one or two very speci c, Committee from those who enjoy outings. down-to-earth projects/issues which could be undertaken with measured Call for progress over the coming 18-24 In other words, many are drawn to Nominations! the "Explore and enjoy" aspects of months. At press time, the SCOG Sierra Club while not being drawn to ExCom Meeting of 01 June has not "Protect" activities. SCOG Outings been held yet and no de nitive The Oahu Group is looking for energetic announcement nor pronouncement is folks interested in serving on the Chair is Randy Ching, a veteran and Executive Committee. If you would like in order. passionate outings leader of long and to participate in steering the future of good standing; he will be active in YOUR Club, please contact Anthony e old adage about "the goal of all Aalto at [email protected] to learn helping SCOG ExCom nd ways to more. be involved in and work on projects organizations is to deliberate, relating to outings. investigate, debate, etc., but when up to your backsides in alligators it is often dicult to talk about draining
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Sierra Club Outings Policy
For all Sierra Club Outings. Sierra Club outings are conducted according to Club policy and under the direction of certi ed Outings Leaders. Our outings are group activities, and all participants are expected to follow leaders' instructions and to remain with the group for the entire outing. We welcome all Sierra Club members, non-members and visitors on most of our outings; however certain outings may be restricted to members. Firearms, pets (unless speci cally allowed), and audio devices with or without headsets are prohibited. Smoking is only permitted at breaks and then only if the smell of smoke cannot be detected by other hikers. Outing Leaders may prohibit smoking if, in their judgement, a re hazard exists.
Bring with you: a liter of water (2 liters for strenuous hikes), lunch, sunscreen, insect repellant, rain gear/ jacket and day-pack. Boots, shoes with traction grooves (heeled footwear are best; no loafers), or tabis are required. Unless otherwise noted, no bare feet or sandals of any type will be allowed.
You will also need to sign a liability waiver. If you would like to read a copy of the waiver prior to the outing, please see www.sierraclub.org/outings/chapter/forms or call 415-977-5630.
In the interests of facilitating the logistics of some outings, sometimes participants make carpooling arrangements. e Sierra Club does not have insurance for carpooling arrangements and assumes no liability for them. Carpooling, ride sharing or anything similar is strictly a private arrangement among the participants. Participants assume the risks associated with this travel.
For speci c islands. Each group may have its own outings policy. Please look at each group’s page or website for more speci c information on where to meet or what to bring with you.
M!lama I Ka Honua" April - June 2011 ! 13 SIERRA CLUB O‘ahu Group Outings Randy Ching 942-0145, asst. Roxanne 9 mi/Moderate/Valley/Mokuleia See Page 13 for what to bring and general Villanueva A 3.6 mile road walk starts in the Mokuleia hiking instructions Forest Reserve parking lot and passes through Sunday, July 10 Peacock Flats campground. We then hike the Unless otherwise stated in the outing description, participants meet at 8:00 am at the back porch of the Likeke from Ho'omaluhia Botanical Gardens Mokuleia Trail for a mile and end up in Pahole Church of the Cross roads, 2510 Bingham Street, (F) Natural Area Reserve. Randy Ching Honolulu. Do not leave your car in the church parking 7 mi/Moderate/Valley/Kaneohe 942-0145, Mariza Silva lot. Meet at Ho'omaluhia Botanical Gardens in Kaneohe at 9 a.m. after the gate opens. Sunday, July 24 Saturday, July 2 We'll park at Pa Launa parking area; it is the Sierra Seminar: Aiea Ridge (partial) (E/F) Niu Valley Service Project (S) very next lot after theVisitor Center parking 5mi/Moderate/Ridge/Aiea 2 mi/Moderate/Ridge/Niu Valley lot, on the left. Note: the sign is partially Wet ridge trail, off the Aiea Loop Trail with Protect the native Hawaiian ulei plants on the mid obscured by bushes. We will start the loop many native plants and beautiful scenery. ridge of Niu Valley. Realignment of the trail along from the park, and ascend 400 feet toward the Clyde Kobashigawa 262-6092, Stan Oka the east edge of the ridge through the ironwood Koolaus. Trek through varying forest 429-9814, John Shimogawa 227-9925. trees will provide a more scenic and enjoyable trail conditions with native and introduced plants, while saving the ulei. Bring your favorite sawing, and views of Kaneohe Bay. Lunch is at the Sunday, July 24 trimming, or pruning tools! Clyde Kobashigawa waterfall near the Koolau golf course. Wiliwilinui Ridge (F) 262-6092, John Shimogawa 227-9925 Colleen Soares 748-9215, Sherine Boomla 5 mi/Strenuous/ Ridge/Waialae Iki 527-8034 A short but steep ascent takes you to the Sunday, July 3 Koolau summit and spectacular views. Jean Waimano Ridge (F) Saturday, July 16 Fujikawa 203-8508, Ed Mersino 223-5765 15 mi/Strenuous/Ridge/Pearl City Lulumahu Falls (F) This long and challenging trail was built in the 3 mi/Moderate/Valley/Nuuanu Sunday, July 31 1930's by the CCC and offers rewarding views at We'll hike to a waterfall and pass by Kokokahi (F) the Koolau summit. The upper portion of the trail Kaniakapupu, the ruins of the summer palace 3 mi/Moderate//Ridge/Kaneohe is almost completely native forest. Randy Ching of King Kamehameha III and his queen, Beautiful panoramic views of Kailua’s 942-0145 Kalama. There is a brief scramble over large Kawainui Marsh on one side, Kaneohe on the rocks just before the falls. Mel Yoshioka other side, and the Koolau mountains Saturday, July 9 224-3765 ahead. This ridge hike begins at the Kawai Iki (F) Friendship Garden and ends at the Kawaewae 4 mi./Moderate/Valley/North Shore Sunday, July 17 Heiau in Kaneohe. Car pooling and shuttle is This is a hike through the scenic center of Oahu. Keahi a Kahoe (F) required due to the limited parking at the After enjoying the view from a ridge overlooking 12 mi/Extremely strenuous/Valley, ridge/ beginning and end of the hike. Randy Ching Kawai Iki, we'll hike down to an irrigation ditch Moanalua 942-0145, Clyde Kobashigawa 262-6092 and follow it along a contour route that takes us Meet at 7:30 a.m. NOT FOR THOSE back into the valley to the catchment dam. We'll UNEASY ABOUT HEIGHTS. We'll start Saturday, August 6 criss-cross the stream and go further back into the in Moanalua Valley, turn up a side ridge to Kaipapau Valley (F) valley to a pool where we can swim and cool off. Tripler Ridge, hike along the Koolau summit 8 mi/Strenuous/Valley/Hauula Ed Mersino 223-5765 for half an hour with incredible views, go to This hike is a long stream hike with over 3 the top of Haiku Stairs for lunch, descend dozen stream crossings before we just rock hop Saturday, July 9 Middle Ridge, and return to our cars along the up the stream bed. The gulch has 300 foot Ala Wai Boat Harbor Cleanup (S) jeep road. A long, rewarding hike that ends at high sides and our hike ends at a waterfall and Meet at 8 a.m. at the Harbor Master's Office, sunset. Randy Ching 942-0145 pool. Ed Mersino 223-5765 between the 3rd and 4th row of boats behind the or [email protected]. Ilikai Hotel. Park in street stalls or public lot Ewa Photography hike: Liliuokalani Garden (E/F) of Hilton lagoon. Wear sturdy shoes with gripping Reservations required. The pace of Sunday, August 7 soles and bring a hat, thick rubber gloves, photography hikes is extremely slow. Named Niu Valley Mid Ridge Partial Hike (E/F) sunscreen, and water. All participants under 18 after Hawaii’s last reigning monarch, 5 mi/Moderate/Ridge/Niu Valley must have a waiver signed by their legal guardian Lili’uokalani Botanical Gardens is centrally Scenic ridge trail with many native plants and to participate. Please contact the leader for the located in lower Nu’uanu valley. Nu’uanu maybe some native birds. Bring lots of water, waiver. Closed toe shoes only. Deborah Blair stream and Waikahalulu falls are favorite lunch, and camera. Clyde Kobashigawa 955-4168, asst. Joanna Alexander subjects among professional photographers 262-6092, John Shimogawa 227-9925, Stan and photo enthusiasts alike. The garden Oka 429-9814 Sunday, July 10 plantings consists of many interesting native Beginner hike: Manoa Cliff Trail (partial) (F) Hawaiian plants in a natural setting. Stan Oka Saturday, August 13 Meet at Church of the Crossroads at 9 a.m. Wear 429-9814, Clyde Kobashigawa 262-6092, John Ka`ala Kipuka (S) closed-toe shoes with good traction. Bring a liter Shimogawa 227-9925, asst. Marie Laberge Help Recreate a Native Hawaiian Dry Forest of water, snack, raingear. Sunscreen, hat, insect with Ka`ala Farm repellent recommended. For those who have not Saturday, July 23 Please meet us at 8:30 a.m. (sharp) in the hiked in a long time or would like an easy hike. Pahole NAR (F) Center's parking area. Email
14 ! July - September 2011 M!lama I Ka Honua HAWAII CHAPTER O‘ahu Group Outings [email protected] for questions. with great views to the Maunawili Demo Trail. Reservations required by Sept 2. This is a great Directions/map to the Ka`ala Kipuka can be From there it is an easy stroll to the Maunawili hike along the Waianae Range that provides found on KFI's website: http:// Connector. You'll even be able to see Rabbit wonderful views of Makua Valley and www.kaalafarm.org Help remove alien plants Island and the towering Ko'olau Mountains. west Oahu. Not for those uneasy about and plant native trees with us. Minimum age We then descend rapidly to the Maunawili heights. Colleen Soares 748-9215. for this event is ten years old; youth less than Falls Trail and return via an easy but muddy Sunday, September 11 15 years old should be accompanied by trail with several stream Manoa Cliff Trail to Pauoa Flats Hike (E/F) guardian. Please wear closed-toe shoes (NO crossings. Richard Bailey 723-2213 3 mi/Easy/Contour/Tantalus slippers!) and work-clothing (you will get a bit Contour trail with many native plants and dirty). Also, please bring a bottle of drinking Beginner hike: Pu`u Ualaka`a (F) scenic views of Manoa Valley and looking into water with you. After the work, there will be a Meet at Church of the Crossroads at 9 a.m. Nuuanu Valley. Be prepared with mini-tour of the Cultural Learning Center for Wear closed-toe shoes with good traction. raingear. Stan Oka 429-9814, Clyde those that want to stay. Bruce Koebele Bring a liter of water, snack, raingear. Kobashigawa 262-6092, John Shimogawa 696-4954 Sunscreen, hat, insect repellent recommended. 227-9925, Marie LaBerge 545-1252 For those who have not hiked in a long time or Saturday, August 13 would like an easy hike. Randy Ching Saturday, September 17 MCBH Kaneohe Bay Service Project (S) 942-0145, asst. Roxanne Villanueva Kuliouou Sidedoor extended loop (F) 2 mi/Moderate/Coast/Kaneohe 8 mi/Very strenuous/Valley, ridge/Kuliouou Reservations required. Call Annette Saturday, August 27 A new Sierra Club hike that combines parts of Kaohelaulii at 235-5431 by August 11. Marine Leader training and OLT 101 at Ho`omaluhia Kuliouou Sidedoor, Kuliouou Ridge and Corps Base Hawaii, Kaneohe Bay has an Botanical Garden from 9:30 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. Mauna O Ahi. A real loop trail, we do not award-winning environmental program. Help For leaders and trainees. retrace any part of the hike. Great views along clear a wetland of mangrove plants to create Gwen Sinclair 753-0528, Bob Keane 623-3208 the Koolau Summit. Randy Ching 942-0145 habitat for Hawaii's endangered water birds. Because MCBH is a secured military facility, Sunday, August 28 Sunday, September 18 we must provide your name to the base in Mt. Olympus (F) Kuliouou Ridge (F) advance, and we will send you a waiver, which 6 mi/Strenuous/Ridge/St. Louis Heights 5 mi/Strenuous/Ridge/Kuliouou you must bring with you. Deborah Blair Following the ridge from Wa‘ahila State Park, Lots of switchbacks and a gentle grade up to 955-4168 we will end up on this colossal peak between the shelter. Enjoy great views Mānoa and Pālolo valleys, with great views of of Waimanalo from the Koolau Ridge after Sunday, August 14 the windward side of the island. Gwen Sinclair you've made the final steep ascent. This Photography Hike: Kawainui Dike Road and 753-0528 popular trail has been markedly improved by Na Pohaku O Hauwahine (E/F) the addition of 150 steps recently put in 2 mi/Easy/Kailua Sandy Beach Cleanup (S) by Sierra Club volunteers. Jean Fujikawa Reservations required. The pace of 1 mi/Easy/Shoreline/East Oahu 203-8508, asst. Joanna Alexander photography hikes is extremely slow. Flat, easy Meet at 8:30 a.m. at Sandy Beach bathroom at walk with panoramas of Kawainui Marsh and eastern side of beach park. Cleanup along Sunday, September 25 Koolau vistas. John Shimogawa 227-9925, highway and coastal areas until 10:30. Call Hawaii Loa Ridge Partial Photography Hike Stan Oka 429-9814, Clyde Kobashigawa Tred (394-2898) for information. Bags, gloves (E/F) 262-6092 provided. All participants under 18 must have 2 mi/Moderate/Ridge/East Oahu a waiver signed by their legal guardian to Reservations required. Meander through Friday - Sunday, August 19 - 21 participate. Please contact the leader for the impressive native forest as you climb the ridge Kahaualea Natural Area Reserve, Big Island waiver. Closed toe shoes only. Deborah Blair overlooking Aina Haina and Niu Valleys and (this trip requires a Thursday night departure) 955-4168 see the scenic panoramas of East Oahu. Clyde Leaders: Deborah Blair 955-4168, Kobashigawa 262-6092, Stan Oka 429-9814, [email protected]; Clyde Kobashigawa Sunday, September 4 John Shimogawa 227-9925 262-6092 Makapuu Scramble (F) We'll be working with NARS (Natural Area 4 mi/Strenuous/Ridge/Makapu'u Beginner hike: Kalawahine (F) Reserve System) clearing a new 5-acre fenced Slip, slide and scramble around the lighthouse Meet at Church of the Crossroads at 9 a.m. enclosure. The work for the weekend will be road, across loose crumbly lava, Wear closed-toe shoes with good traction. eradicating Kahili Ginger and Faya Tree. This crawling inside WWII bunkers and balancing Bring a liter of water, snack, raingear. is a new enclosure and when it's cleared, we'll above Sea Life Park to see spectacular views of Sunscreen, hat, insect repellent recommended. be able to fill it with native plants. Oahu's Waimanalo coastline, Koko Crater and For those who have not hiked in a long time or Accommodation will be at a comfortable house even Koko Head. Bring gallons of water, tubs would like an easy hike. Randy Ching in Hilo at the NARS baseyard. of sunscreen and a sombrero. Not for those 942-0145, asst. Roxanne Villanueva scared of heights. Richard Bailey 723-2213 Sunday, August 21 Maunawili Falls (F) Sunday, September 11 5 mi/Moderate/Ridge/Maunawili Kuaokala (F) After a long road climb, take a steep trail up 7 mi/Moderate/Ridge/Makaha
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By Judy Dalton Ranch, to extend cattle grazing permits throughout 23-hillside acres operations from the plateau, down the fronting Kauapea Beach, also known Wailua River and Hanalei River eroded hillside adjacent to Larsen's as Secret Beach. Hydroelectric Projects Beach, seemingly contrary to the protections afforded to land zoned as The subdivision of former Kilauea SC submitted testimony to FERC Special Management Area by the Plantation land has resulted in the (Federal Energy Regulatory county. privatization of trails and beach Commission) in opposition to Free access. This recent trail work created Flow Power’s (FFP) preliminary SC believes that blocking the trail fails a private, commercial resort amenity permit applications to study the to honor the prescriptive rights of the for the luxury vacation rental homes feasibility of hydropower dams for the public and the traditional and that abut the CD, built on contiguous Wailua and Hanalei Rivers. SC’s customary rights of Native Hawaiians agricultural-zoned parcels owned by opposition to the proposed projects who traveled along the historic alaloa the applicant. These vacation rentals was based on the fact that both (coastal trail) for generations both to are marketed as offering private proposals have been studied access the ocean and to transit access to Secret Beach and the two- extensively in the past and were between kuleana lands. DLNR has miles of non-permitted trails have shown to have significant recognized that the connecting trail been offered as an easement for sale environmental, cultural and other segments at both ends of the Lepeuli to neighbors. impacts. ahupua`a property are public. Legally, a landowner cannot close off access In order to not reward the applicant’s Kaua`i Island Utility Cooperative to a trail or road formed prior to 1892. willful violations of State regulations (KIUC) has since acquired FFP’s and to discourage other landowners rights to the preliminary permits and In February, the Kaua`i Group from circumventing these rules, SC has explained at community meetings submitted a formal complaint to the made a two-part recommendation. that the descriptions in the project State Office of Coastal and First, that the permit be denied and applications were "placeholders" and Conservation Lands (OCCL) the land be restored to its former, that the actual proposals may be requesting that they investigate the undeveloped state. Or, as a condition significantly different. If that is true, installation of fence posts on of permit approval, a public SC will evaluate, without bias, the Conservation District land without a pedestrian access easement or right- revised proposals as they are made use permit. No response has been of-way through the Conservation available. SC does not oppose forthcoming. We also requested a District to Kauapea Beach must be hydropower projects that would boundary interpretation from the Land secured in perpetuity. This would protect the environment and respect Use Commission in early February restore historical access for the public cultural, recreational and community since state law requires a and ensure that the Conservation values. Conservation District (CD) boundary District trail use is not used solely for interpretation for any work within 50 commercial purposes. Currently, six distinct hydro projects feet of the CD. We anticipate that are being explored by KIUC. The their findings will show that the process of defining each of the fencing, particularly near the projects and examining the impacts of trailhead, is encroaching at least 75 each will be lengthy. At this time, the feet into the CD in violation of debate is focused on the question of permitting regulations. whether approval authority should belong to the federal government or Draft Environmental Assessement to the State of Hawai`i. (DEA) for an After-the-Fact Conservation District Permit - Larsen’s Beach Lateral Trail Secret Beach Properties, LLC Fenced Off In April, SC wrote extensive The coastal trail along Kaua`i’s comments urging the Board of Land northeastern coastline through the and Natural Resources to reject ahupua`a of Lepeuli is now blocked. Conservation District Use Fencing was installed in April by Application CDUA-KA-3586 for trails !"#$%"&'"$()*'+,&-$./01,.,*&0)$0''"22$.*$ Waioli Corporation’s lessee, Paradise that were constructed without 30/2"&42$5"0'6
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Join us on one of these great outings to reward for moderate e ort. Karen Tilley members only. NTGB requires 1 advanced explore, enjoy and care for our island. 821-8008 reservations plus 2 hours of volunteer help Mileage is round trip unless otherwise in the Gardens. Bob Nishek 346-0476 indicated. Requested donation for members Sat. Aug 6 Kalepa Ridge/Strenuous /East and participants under 18:$1. Donation for side/8 miles (F) Enjoy sweeping coastal and Sat. Sept 10 Maha'ulepu Sunset to Moon others: $5. Outings Classi cations: (C) valley views along the ridge which continues Light Walk/South Shore/ Moderate/3 Conservation/Interpretive (E) Educational the Sleeping Giant range from Wailua River Miles. (C/E/F) Start out in late afternoon (F) Family/Fun (S) Service. For more to Hanama`ulu. Misha Mintche 246-6168 from Shipwreck Beach to Maha'ulepu to information check our website: enjoy the sunset and an almost full moon www.hi.sierrclub.org/kauai Wed. Aug 10 Nonou (Sleeping Giant) over the glistening ocean. Spectacular Conservation Service Project. East Side/ coastal walk. We'll shuttle cars to make this strenuous/4 miles. Tend to endangered a leisurely one way hike. Judy Dalton Sun. July 3 Okolehao/Northshore/ native plants in their habitat and enjoy a full 246-9067 Strenuous/ 4 miles. (C/E) An afternoon moon walk. Sierra Club members only. Bob hike up a trail that climbs 1200 feet along a Nishek 346-0476 Sun. Sept 11 Honopu trail/ Kokee/ ridge behind Hanalei. Enjoy beautiful, strenuous/ 3.5 miles. (C/E) Ridge hike in sweeping views of Hanalei Bay and the Sat. Aug 13 Kuilau Ridge Trail. East side/ Koke'e with panoramic views down Na Pali North Shore. Kathy Valier 826-7302. Moderate/3 miles.(E/F) Lush mountain coast & stunning views into remote Honopu and sweeping valley views. Great reward for Valley. Jane Schmitt 826-6105 Sat. July 9 Kealia Beach Clean up, picnic moderate e ort. Vivian Hager 652-3234. and swim. East Shore/Easy. ( S/F) anks Wed. Sept 14 Waimea Canyon Road Clean for helping us keep our beaches clean. Sun. Aug 14 Limahuli Gardens restoration Up. (S) Afternoon clean up of Sierra Club's Freeing beaches of litter is about more than work/hike, North Shore/ moderate/ 2miles. adopted highway (2 miles) requires a little making a beach attractive. It also protects (S/C/E/) Help restore some of Limahuli over an hour. Please help keep the gateway the wildlife, the reef, and ocean. Afterwards, Gardens selected areas by weeding invasive to Waimea Canyon litter-free. Bob Nishek we'll enjoy our newly-cleaned beach with a species and out planting natives & then hike at 346-0476. picnic and a swim. Vivian Hager 652-3234. to a beautiful waterfall at the back of the valley. Sierra Club Members only. Limited Sat. Sept. 17 Maha'ulepu Beach Clean Up Sun. July 10 Alakai Swamp/ Koke'e/ very to 15 participants. Jane Schmitt 826-6105 South Shore. International Coastal Clean strenuous/7 miles. (C/E) Mountain rain and Frank Whitman. Up 25th Anniversary (C/E/S Sierra Club, forest rising 4,500 above sea level. See Malama Maha'ulepu & Surfrider team up primeval habitat with a variety of native Sun. Aug 21 Makale'ha Falls/East side/ to keep this majestic beach looking plants & birds made accessible with the Strenuous/4 miles. (C/E) Follow an beautiful. Follow Poipu Road past the construction of boardwalks Sierra Club unmaintained route through lowland rain Hyatt on dirt road. Drive to T-intersection helped create. Four wheel drives needed to forest to a hidden waterfall. Treacherous and turn right. Continue past entry gate to carpool to trailhead. Jane Schmitt 826-6105 footing, rock hopping, clambering. Tabi parking area and look for banners. Beach footwear required. Kathy Valier 826-7302. cleanup starts at 9AM and continues to Sun July 17 Maha'ulepu/South shore/C/E/ noon. Afterward enjoy the newly-cleaned F /moderate/ 2.5 miles. Spectacular coastal Sun. Aug. 28 Maha'ulepu/South Shore/ beach. Bring hat and water. Bags, gloves & walk with stunning views along the majestic, moderate/ 2.5 miles. (C/E/F) Spectacular refreshments provided. Mahalo for helping! rugged ancient sand-dune area of coastal walk with stunning views. Visit the Je Vesci 755-5587 and Judy Dalton. Maha`ulepu. Visit the fantastic sinkhole/ fantastic sinkhole/cave archeological site. cave archeological site. Allan Rachap Allan Rachap 212-3108 Sun. Sept 18 Canyon Loop/Koke’e/ 212-3108 Moderate/estimated 3.5 miles (C/E) A Sun. Sept 4 Kalalau trail to Space Rock/ loop hike connecting the Canyon Trail with Sat. July 23 Kalepa Ridge/Strenuous /East North shore/ very strenuous/ 8 miles. (C/E) an unmaintained trail. Stunning canyon side/8 miles (F) Enjoy sweeping coastal and Famous North shore trail o ers stunning views. Kathy Valier 826-7302. valley views along the ridge which continues coastal views of Na Pali & we hike to high the Sleeping Giant range from Wailua River point on the trail & return to Ke'e beach. Sun. Sept 25 Ho'opi'i Falls/ East Side/3 to Hanama`ulu. Kathy Valier and Misha Jane Schmitt 826-6105 miles/moderate. (E/F) You'll be in for a Mintche 246-6168 delightful surprise discovering this forest Fri. Sept 9 National Tropical Botanical trail along a river featuring two beautiful Sat. July 30 Base of Nonou (Sleeping Gardens Full Moon Walk. South Side/ waterfalls. Frank Whitman 808-443-4315 Giant) / Moderate/East side /3.5 miles (E/ Moderate/2 miles. (C/E) Hike and learn (please dial 808 rst) and Judy Dalton F) Walk in mostly shady forest, with ferns, about propagation of native plants in lovely 246-9067. hala, birdsong, and sweeping views. Great gardens, plus volunteer service. Sierra Club
Key: D=distance, the estimated round trip for the day; E=elevation in feet: + is gain, - is loss, +/- is up and down. Classification of hikes: (E) Education/Interpretation; (C) Conservation; (F) Family/Fun; (S) Service
M!lama I Ka Honua" April - June 2011 ! 17 SIERRA CLUB Maui Group Report For the complete Maui Group Newsletter, please go update. MIP maps will be reviewed by groundwater resources has been to www.mauisierraclub.org and click on the County Council in August- completed and will be released soon. "Newsletters" and for the latest on hikes and September of 2011. activities, please click on "Hikes and Activities." Hamakuapoko Wells: Any future use North Shore Bikeway: A recent of two county wells with elevated Sierra Club Maui had educational public meeting has announced that levels of agricultural chemicals DBCP, Earth Month displays at Whole Foods the last section of the bikeway, EDP and TCP remains unknown. The Market, the East Maui Taro Festival connecting the route from Kanaha Arakawa administration has and Earth Day at Ke’opuolani Park Beach park to the completed section expressed a desire to swap the well amphitheatre during April and May. fronting Baldwin Beach park and the output for more EMI stream water. Mahalo to volunteers Michael Pa’ia Youth and Cultural Center, will Duberstein, Nancy Mc Pherson, be built along Hana Highway. This Sustainable Ag: School and Daniel Grantham, Neola Caveny. and ends a decade long debate with community garden programs are Lucienne de Naie who helped at the Spreckelsville residents and others expanding on Maui. Major questions various events. Maui Group also such as MG who wanted protection for remain to be answered regarding participated in an Earth month Water the dune areas makai of Maui Country future use of former plantation lands Warriors promotion with Aveda salons Club. and HC&S lands still in sugar in Maui. production. East Maui Streams: Despite severe Maui Group members have been staff shortages, the state Water Renewable Energy gathering input on the various Big Commission is moving forward with Two renewable energy projects are Wind and interisland cable projects designs to create bypass routes for being proposed for Ulupalakua ranch proposed for Maui County. This is a native stream life through existing lands: Auwahi Windfarm and test wells complex issue and the group wants to diversions on several East Maui for a potential geothermal facility understand the various options to help streams. Will these limited pathway above Kahkili Highway East of inform the Hawaii Chapter comments areas help boost native species Kanaio. Both have promised to deliver on future environmental documents. survival? East Maui communities clean energy, but there are unresolved continue to monitor the effects.. issues of material transport roads and impacts to native plant habitat and UPDATES ON MAUI Na Wai Eha Stream Restoration: cultural sites that MG and others CONSERVATION ISSUES- April- Earth Justice, on behalf of several continue to monitor. June 2011 Maui groups recently asked the Hawaii Supreme Court to hear their A pumped storage facility utilizing Ma’alaea Harbor Expansion: Work appeal of the 2010 Water Commission dams and reservoirs around Maliko has begin on much needed repairs to decision to restore only 14 mgd of Gulch has been proposed to Federal the harbor’s docks, roads, electric water to two Na Wai Eha streams. Left regulators and the state Public Utilities system and public facilities. Maui out were Iao and Waikapu streams. Commission. MG members had Group supports these efforts and USGS studies show appropriate levels doubts that the operation has been continues dialogue with Army Corps of stream restoration will prolong the well vetted for local conditions and the representatives and Save Maalaea life of Iao aquifer, source of 50% of County Energy coordinator shared allies to shape a community driven Maui’s public water supply. The court similar concerns. Several renewable plan for any additional Harbor is expected to decide this year if it will energy projects are being discussed in modifications. hear the case, or refer it to the West Maui as well, with hopes of a Intermediate Court of Appeals. County contract to supply power to North Shore Heritage Park & energy hungry County wastewater Hookipa Expansion: MG members Water Use and Development Plan treatment facilities. are consulting on Archaeological (WUDP): Maui County Council studies for the proposed Paia Reliever adopted the WUDP for Central Maui Maui County recently issued a Road route. These studies will greatly late in 2010. The Plan puts strong Request For Proposals for private increase the knowledge of cultural emphasis on conservation and reuse sector partners to provide renewable resources that can be incorporated of water resources. Plans will also be energy installations at numerous into the Heritage Park plan. MG will done for the Upcountry, Hana, Lanai, county facilities. One stumbling block continue to advocate for appropriate Molokai and Lahaina water systems. is that the local utility has set park areas for both Baldwin beach A major USGS study on Lahaina percentages of renewable energy it and Ho’okipa in Maui Island Plan can accept in each area through its
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that the water source will be adequate traditional burials. It is also part of an once heavy pumping begins to serve historic battleground where Maui and ALERT! the proposed project’s 3000 residents Hawaii island forces met in pre- The matter will be heard June 6. contact Hawaii. The Draft Maui Island Plan proposes a large open space to THE MAUI OUTINGS SCHEDULE WAS NOT Big Island Fish Farm Proposal: In protect dunes, burials and cultural AVAILABLE AT THE TIME OF PRINTING. FOR September 2010: Hawaii Oceanic sites. The A&B plan protects nearly CURRENT INFORMATION, PLEASE VISIT WWW.MAUISIERRACLUB.ORG OR CALL Technology, Inc. (HOTI) withdrew its 100 already disturbed burials on site, LUCIENNE DE NAIE AT (808) 214-0147 application for three (3) off shore fish but leaves other likely burial areas at farming cages. The company plans to high risk of destruction in the resubmit an application for one proposed urban development area. experimental cage. to raise ahi off the MG supports the MIP plan version. grids. This could make it difficult for North Kohala coast of the Big Island. facilities like a community center to Ponoaqua alliance and 300 citizens Haleakala Solar Telescope meet energy needs through asked the Corps to hold public (ATST):.Local groups have appealed renewables if their output goes hearings before making any decision. the proposed telescope’s through the grid. HOTI expects to export 90% of the 12 Conservation District use permit. For Larger facilities, like wastewater miilion lbs of tuna it hopes to farm in updates
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CHAIR REPORT outings, politics or have any special skills and Noise is evaluated using day-night and even BY ROBERTA BRASHEAR-KAULFERS would like to volunteer with Your Sierra Club, annual averages, plus a method that under- please contact [email protected] and let us estimates low-frequency noise. Noise maps know. We will be putting together a slate of contradict the text. An Army (not Aloha to all of our members, and I hope to see candidates for the September 2011 newsletter independent) study is the only one cited re. you out on the trails very soon. and would love to have some new volunteers noise impacts on wildlife. It’s unclear if one, or on board. more, helicopters are assumed in noise There have been some changes to our board analysis, though each mountain may get three this spring. Debbie Hecht has resigned and Army Helicopters on Hawai`i Island helicopters at a time. Diane Ware will fill her seat in addition to Mountains by Cory Harden reporting on outings. Several group meetings Helicopters will fly right over the only and activities were held this spring. These Sierra Club is calling for a Federal designated critical habitat for endangered included an Outing leaders training on May Environmental Impact Statement for high- palila birds. Only 1,200 palila may be left. 90% 7th, with CPR and first aid certification altitude Army helicopter training proposed for of known palila and all successful breeding training for 11 participants. Mauna Kea and Mauna Loa. happen on the southwest side of Mauna Kea. The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service found Moku Loa Group holds monthly Some Hawai’i Island residents are calling for a petrel surveys inadequate. Three landing zones Conservation Committee meetings on the last Board of Land and Natural Resources are inside ‘io range. One is just outside a nene Wednesday of each month. About 10 people (BLNR) meeting in Hilo. The Army is sanctuary. Bats have been seen near some attend, and because we place a meeting notice seeking a permit with no public meetings, landing zones. Helicopters may fly at 200 feet in the newspaper, we frequently have new though the helicopters would expand in areas one mile wide above six landing people join us. Pohakuloa training into the Conservation zones, but some biological surveys only cover District. The Army re-wrote its about one-tenth of that area. Moku Loa Group is always trying to expand Environmental Assessment (EA), but it is still and engage our members in different inadequate. The EA cites the high level of visual (and community activities and programs. Our first noise) impacts from current air trafiic---but joint program was held on April 21, 2011, No public meetings were held on the EA, or instead of analyzing cumulative impacts, uses with the Mokupapapa Discovery Center in on permits for similar training done earlier. this as a rationale for generating more impacts. Hilo. Thanks go to Will Seitz who presented Maps printed from the online EA couldn’t The EA claims visual and noise impacts on his research on Hawksbill Turtles and other even be seen with a magnifying glass. Sierra cultural practitioners, hunters, hikers, and species, as well as Phil Barnes and the staff at Club didn’t receive a paper EA till the sightseers will be insignificant. Mokupapapa. working day before the comment deadline. Many affected parties were left out of The EA doesn’t say when helicopter training Moku Loa Group also participated in the consultation. will end. Hawaii Community College Annual Earth Fair held at UH Hilo. Thanks go to our Pilots are now sent to Colorado for training, Mauna Kea and Mauna Loa Sought for volunteers Phil Barnes, Edith Worsencroft, and may be able to continue that. Only two Multiple Use by Deborah Ward Jon Olson, Jimmy Roustio and Paul, Maile hours flight time are needed per pilot. Larish, Cory Harden and Diane Ware. While the Army proposes to expand the Safety analysis is inadequate for helicopter Pohakuloa Training Area into highly sensitive The program is planning to ask members of maneuvers so challenging they require three cultural resource and native plant habitat for the Malama I Ka ‘Aina subcommittee of Puna weeks of specialized training. The EA says the Stryker brigade, and plans to train Community Development Plan to do nothing about eight fatalities from Army hundreds of helicopter pilots in high-elevation program on Volcano Biosphere buffer zone, in helicopter crashes in Hawai’i in 2001 and simulations in endangered palila, petrel, and July or August. Additionally, the program 2009. It omits fatal military helicopter crashes `io habitat within the ceded lands designated committee is planning to offer a program in 1996 and 2011, plus one forced landing in Conservation District, the BLNR has issued a featuring Dave Raney in Kona regarding fish 2011, in Hawai’i. It omits two recent high- provisional permit for a huge new expansion farming, and the Sierra Club policy on open altitude helicopter crashes in Colorado—one on the northern plateau on Mauna Kea. The ocean aquaculture. This will be an fatal. It does not say why an Army helicopter board determined that a contested case informational session, not an indictment of missed a Mauna Kea landing zone by three hearing must be held before the UH could Kona Blue aquaculture fish farm. miles in 2003, or discuss flying debris and proceed, and seven petitioners will make the noise from future helicopters landing next to case for permit denial before a hearing officer Call for Candidates: Moku Loa Group is the Mauna Loa road. in August. (To read more, go to looking for members to run for the Moku www.KAHEA.org). Sierra Club, which Loa Group Excom. The EA does not say how pilots will confirm prevailed in court in 2006 to compel the that landing zones are clear at night. It does development of a comprehensive management The nominating committee is searching for not say whether lights will used to avoid plan, was recently mentioned in the news individuals who are interested in furthering aircraft collisions, nor evaluate any impacts to when the Intermediate Court of Appeals ruled the goals of the Sierra Club: Explore, Enjoy people and wildlife from lights. that our pro bono attorneys could not recover and Protect. If you have some time to spare fees and court costs for their extensive work to each month, are interested in Conservation, compel the state to follow its own rules.
20 ! July - September 2011 M!lama I Ka Honua HAWAII CHAPTER Moku Loa Group Outings See Page 13 for General Outings July 30 Sat - Kona Hema Service with Nature native flora and fauna. Our mauka walk from the Information Conservancy (E)(S)(C) D=TBA E= +/- 300' state wayside park will include interpretation of the We will carpool to Miloli'i to meet our plants and other features of the area. Bring lunch, Donation for non-members is $3.00. Participants Conservancy leader and then be taken by vans to water, binoculars, rain gear and wear sturdy shoes. under 18 years of age must be accompanied by an our work site mauka. We will be working on fence Contact Linda Larish 966-6337 and Rich Vogler adult. line to ensure endangered bats will not get caught 328-8387 in them. Our conservancy leaders will take us on a July 9 Sat, Green Lake Hike- D= 2 miles short guided hike in this beautiful forest. Bring hat Aug 27 & 28 Sat, Sun - Hakalau National Fish & A beautiful hike in Kapoho to a natural green lake gloves, lunch, water, and rain gear. Contact Diane Wildlife Service Project (S)(E)(C) D = 3 miles, E and to the top of Green Mountain where you can Ware 967-8642 = 5500’ +/- 500’ The group will help the US Fish see excellent views of the ocean and surrounding and Wildlife Service in one of their conservation area. Hike is on a jeep trail and is approximately Aug 6, 7, 8 Sat, Sun, Mon Waimanu Valley projects. After working, we will be rewarded with two miles. This hike is on private land: therefore a Backpack (E) D = 19 miles round trip; E = +/- an opportunity to bird watch and botanize. Travel $5 fee applies. Contact Sunny & Mike LaPlante 1200’ by 4x4 from Saddle Road. Prepare for wet and 964-5017 This is an energetic backpack for individuals with chilly weather. Bring boots, rain gear, sun backpacking experience and proper gear. We will protection, warm clothes, gloves, binoculars, July 14th Thur - Volcano International Biosphere start from the rim of Waipi`o Valley, descend into sleeping bag. Contact Sunny & Michael La Plante Reserve. Dan Taylor will be giving a presentation the valley, cross and ascend the far side, and 964-5017 on the UNESCO International Biosphere continue on this trail until we drop down into Reserve in Hawaii Volcanoes National Park. Waimanu Valley 9 miles from our starting point. Sept 3 & 4 Sat & Sun - Napau Crater Backpack Dan's focus will be on the role that the Puna After a layover day in incomparable Waimanu (E)(C) D = 12 miles, E = 3000’ – 1200’ Community Development Plan is playing to Valley we will return via the same route. Previous Explore the East Rift Zone between Mauna Ulu encourage cooperation between the park and backpacking experience, sturdy boots, leader and Napau Craters, crossing recent lava flows, neighboring communities, to promote resource approval required. Contact Diane Ware 967-8642 craters and kipukas of native forest. Camp at conservation and sustainable development. The and Cheryl Hoover 985-9601 Napau Crater with stunning view of Pu`u O`o. presentation will be at 6 pm at the Mokupapapa Trip requires shuttle between Mauna Ulu and Ke Center on Kamehameha Blvd. in Hilo. For Aug 14 Sun Escape Road to Pu`u Huluhulu, Ala Komo. Out house available but all water must further information contact Phil Barnes at HVNP (F) D = 5.5 miles, E = 3800’ – 500’ be packed in. Rain gear, food, boots, tent and 965-9695. This pleasant family hike is almost all downhill. sleeping bags required equipment. Leader approval We start out in the forest, traverse a pahoehoe lava for this moderate backpack requiring heavy packs July 15 Fri - Full Moon Petroglyphs Hike – Call field, climb Pu`u Huluhulu (where we will eat due to no water at campsite [8-10 lbs. of water for details and meeting times. lunch with a view of Pu`u O`o and then return to (4-6 liters)]. Car shuttle. Contact Diane Ware Contact Roberta Brashear-Kaulfers 966-7002 and our cars). 967-8642 and Linda Larish 966-6337 Rose Acevedo 964-3128 Contact Rose Acevedo 964-3128, Roberta Brashear-Kaulfers 966-7002 and Janice Crowl Sept 10 Sat - Pu`u O`o Trail Day Hike (Saddle July 17 Sun - Pu'u Maka'ala, (E)(C)(F) D=4-6 936-5803 Road) (E)(C)(F) D = 4 miles, E = 5700’ +/- 100’ miles E= +/- 500' This is an easy-paced interpretive nature walk on a Join us for an enchanting, interpretive hike Aug 19, 20, 21 Fri, Sat, Sun - Red Hill Cabin well-marked fairly level old trail that was used long through very old growth native forest protected Backpack (E) D = 7 ½ miles/day, E = 6500’ +/- ago to drive cattle across the island. It begins off and fenced by Natural Area Reserve System. Some 3800’ Saddle Road at the 5700’ elevation and crosses of the 'Ohias in this forest form mini ecosystems The trail starts at the end of the Mauna Loa Strip through pristine native forest kipukas surrounded with 4-6 species connected. Some rare and Road where participants will experience a by old lava flows. We’ll go as far as the group endangered plants are found here and we will see strenuous climb up the slopes of Mauna Loa in decides, then have lunch and retrace our route. lobelias, rare mints and loulu palm. Bring lunch, Hawai`i Volcanoes National Park. You will enjoy The weather may be changeable, so bring warm water, sturdy boots and rain gear for this rainforest the view at “the top of the world” from the cone at clothes, 1 quart of water, sunscreen, hat, rain gear, hike. Limited to 8 participants, and this hike in over 10,000’. Required gear includes frame lunch; and wear sturdy shoes. Contact Phil Barnes NARS is exempt from donations. Contact Diane backpack, sleeping bag, warm clothing, sturdy 965-9695, Sarah Moon 935-3475 and Kana Ware 967-8642 and Janice Crowl 936-5803 boots, hat, sunscreen and good health. May have Covington 966-8431 to carry 35-40 lb. pack. Reservations are required July 23 Sat - Kaloli to Haena (Shipman Beach) and number is limited to ten. Cooperative dinner Sept 24 Sat - Kaloli to Haena (Shipman Beach) (E)(C) D = 6 miles, E = sea level will be arranged in advance; other meals will be (E)(C) D = 6 miles, E = sea level Hike on a historic trail in Puna, an inland carriage provided by individuals. Contact Diane Ware Hike on a historic trail in Puna, an inland carriage road from Paradise Park to Haena, legendary 967-8642 and Phil Barnes 965-9695 road from Paradise Park to Haena, legendary birthplace of the hula. Observe nene and birthplace of the hula. Observe nene and interesting backshore ecosystems. Bring Aug 21 Sun - Manuka Natural Area Reserve (E) interesting backshore ecosystems. Bring sunscreen, hat, sturdy boots and lunch. Sarah (C)(F) D = 2.5 miles, E = 1800’ +/- 600’ sunscreen, hat, sturdy boots and lunch. Contact Moon 935-3475 and Kana Covington 966-8431 This dryland forest in the Ka`u district used to be Sarah Moon 935-3475 the home of the alala and still features a variety of Key: D=distance, the estimated round trip for the day; E=elevation in feet: + is gain, - is loss, +/- is up and down. Classification of hikes: (E) Education/Interpretation; (C) Conservation; (F) Family/Fun; (S) Service M!lama I Ka Honua" April - June 2011 ! 21 SIERRA CLUB Chapter Directory
O`AHU GROUP EXCOMM “To explore, enjoy, and protect the wild places of http://www.hi.sierraclub.org/oahu/ the earth; to practice and promote the responsible P.O. Box 2577, Honolulu, HI 96803 use of the earth’s ecosystems and resources; to (808) 537-9019 educate and enlist humanity to protect and Chair:……………….… Willis Moore, [email protected] restore the quality of the natural and human Vice Chair: ………….……….……..…Randy Ching, [email protected] environment; to use all lawful means to carry Chapter Delegate: …..…..Steven Montgomery, [email protected] out these objectives.” Secretary: …………...…………………..Anthony Aalto, [email protected] Treasurer: ……..……………….…..…Randy Ching, [email protected] At-Large: ………………………...…Lindon Morris, [email protected] MAIN OFFICE At-Large: ………………...Wayne Takamine, [email protected] Mail………………………………...….P.O. Box 2577, Honolulu, HI 96813 Oce Location..…..Room 306, 1040 Richards Street, Honolulu, HI 96813 KAUA`I GROUP EXCOMM Telephone:…………………………….………………….....(808) 538 - 6616 http://www.hi.sierraclub.org/kauai/ Email………………………………………[email protected] Box 3412, Lihu`e, Hawai’i 96766 Web…………………………………………….…www.sierraclubhawaii.com Judy Dalton, Outings, Beach Protection, Public Access, PROFESSIONAL STAFF [email protected], 246-9067 Director..…...Robert D. Harris, [email protected], (808) 538-6616 Caren Diamond, Ocean Set backs, GMOs, Pesticide Use, [email protected] EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE OFFICERS Marge Freeman, Conservation, Membership, [email protected] Chair………………………………….Mark Glick, [email protected] Carl Imparato, Conservation, Helicopter Noise, [email protected] Vice Chair……………………..Roberta Brashear-Kaulfers, roberta.brashear- Rayne Regush, Conservation, Land Use, [email protected] [email protected] Jimmy Trujillo, Conservation, Environmental Justice, [email protected] Treasurer…………..…….………………..Helen Chong, [email protected] Gabriela Taylor, Conservation, [email protected] Secretary…………...…..…..Roberta Brasher-Kaulfers, [email protected] Hawai’i Service Trip Program: …………….Janice Marsters, [email protected] MAUI GROUP EXCOMM High School Hikers………..Bob Keane, 623-3208, [email protected] http://www.hi.sierraclub.org/maui/ Kaua`i Group…………..…..………….Rayne Regush, [email protected] P.O. Box 791180, Pā`ia, HI 96779, (206) 426-5535. Moku Loa Group……………………….....Debbie Ward, [email protected] O`ahu Group……………..Steve Montgomery, [email protected] Lance Holter, Group Chair & Parks/Refuges Chair, 579-9442, [email protected] Maui Group……………...……....Lance Holter, 579-9442, [email protected] Chris Taylor, Vice Chair & Director, [email protected] At-Large………………….………………Lucienne DeNaie, [email protected] Nancy McPherson, Director, [email protected] At-Large……………..…………………..….Janice Marsters, [email protected] Karen Chun, Secretary, Web Master & Publicity Chair, [email protected] At-Large…………………...….… Sheila Sarhangi, [email protected] Michael Duberstein, Treasurer, [email protected] At-Large…………………...…...Caren Diamond, [email protected] Rich Lucas, Director & Political Chair, [email protected] Daniel Grantham, Director & Energy Chair, 572-4571, [email protected] Stacia Ash, Director & Waste/Recycling Chair, 298-9270 HAWAI‘I SERVICE TRIP PROGRAM Angelika Hofmann, Director, 357-3134, [email protected]
Chair:………………..…..…….Janice Marsters, 988-3899, [email protected] MOKU LOA EXCOMM Leadership Dev.:………..…………………… John Cummings III, 527-5490 http://www.hi.sierraclub.org/Hawaii/index.html Finance:……………………………………..………..Pauline Sato, 621-2008 P.O. Box 1137, Hilo, HI 96721, (808) 965-5460 Secretary: ………………….…………………...Waimea Williams, 239-5423 Project Evaluation: …………………………………………..Amber O’Reilly Chair Roberta Brashear-Kaulfers*, 966-7002, roberta.brashear- Recruitment: ……………………………………....Scott Rowland, 259-5416 [email protected] Treasurer: …………………………………….…Jim Waddington, 947-2732 Vice Chair Deborah Ward*, [email protected] Secretary Martha Cory Harden*, [email protected] Treasurer Malie Larish*, [email protected] HIGH SCHOOL HIKERS PROGRAM Conservation Mary Marvin Porter [email protected] Martha Cory Harden*, [email protected] President: ………………….………. Erron Yoshioka, [email protected] Debbie Hecht*, 989-3222, [email protected] Vice-President: ………... John M. Cummings III, [email protected] Newsletter Janice Crowl*, [email protected] Secretary, Newsletter: Pauline Kawamata, [email protected] Political Jon Olson*, [email protected] Treasurer, Membership: …..Bob Keane, 623-3208, [email protected] Outings Sarah Moon, 935-3475 [email protected] Outings: …………………..……Fred Nakaguma, [email protected] Rose Acevedo, 756-5990 [email protected] Website:……………………………..……..Jim Yuen, [email protected] Fundraising Roberta Brashear-Kaulfers* Ecology Camp:…………..Bob Keane, Jamie Tanino, [email protected] 22 ! July - September 2011 M!lama I Ka Honua HAWAII CHAPTER
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