Hunters Stand Up. Hawaii Needs Your Help

Most of you hunters reading this do not live on the Big Island, BUT THIS AFFECTS EVERY ISLAND AND EVERY PIECE OF HUNTING LAND THAT WE CALL HUNTING GROUNDS FROM PAST, PRESENT AND FUTURE. NARS (Natural Area Reserves System which is a division of DLNR) is on the biggest land grab in the history of the nation totally 18,706 acres here on the Big Island of Natural Area Reserve (NAR) not counting other islands. The State will be installing 17 miles of fencing costing $100,000 per mile. NARS should fix and maintain existing reserve lands before expanding. Draft Environmental Impact Statement (DEIS) states "The removal of these NAR lands from the public hunting acreage is not expected to have a major effect on the overall availability of pig hunting opportunities." NOT TRUE! This will cause major impacts to our natural game. The area slated to become off-limits to hunting is "probably the best pig hunting area in the Kulani area." We will have a Petition being passed around by Joe Griffiths 808-687-0966 on Big Island, Desmond Manaba 808-646-0853 on Molokai, Sheldon Alvarado 808-864-6838 on Oahu, Jeffrey Derego 808-281-4011 on Maui, and Robert Cremer 808-651-2956 on Kauai. Here on the Big Island the Petition is ready to be signed at Dels Feed Store and Miranda's Country Store. If you have trouble getting in touch with anyone listed here, please contact me Joe Griffiths (808) 687-0966 and I will see that your signature can be counted. Anybody willing to participate in a peaceful protest and picket at DLNR Dept of Forestry and Wildlife baseyard at 19 E. Kawili St. (corner of Kawili Street and Kilauea Avenue, Big Island)? This picket will be coming up soon so please contact one of the people listed here for the date and time. Please take your time filling out the Petition (date, signature, printed name and address). Time to stand up Hawaii.

MEDIA RELEASE

HONOLULU — The Department of Land and Natural Resources (DLNR) is focusing its efforts on ecosystem management to protect our islands’ fresh water resources.

DLNR has produced a half-hour television special illustrating the importance of watershed protection and restoration. “The Rain Follows the Forest,” features Jason Scott Lee setting out on a journey to learn about sustainable life in our island home. Through interesting conversations, he learns about Hawai‘i’s fragile fresh water supply and discovers connections to our upland forest environment, and shares ways in which we all can contribute to protecting our watersheds.

One of those conversations in the television special is with William J. Aila, Jr., Chairperson of DLNR who says, “I think about my grandchildren all the time and the challenges that they are going to face. The worst-case scenario is that our watersheds are depleted and the source of fresh water diminishes.”

“Fresh water is really important for us, it’s important to every ecosystem from the top of the mountain even into the ocean,” continued Aila.

Tune-in on Thursday January 19, 2012 at 6:30 p.m. on KGMB and join Jason Scott Lee as he learns about our watersheds and how they provide nearly all of our fresh water in Hawai‘i.

DLNR has launched a facebook page which has been following the production of the television special. Follow DLNR on facebook at www.facebook.com/HawaiiDLNR to see those images and keep up to date with DLNR news.

Airdates in January 2012

KGMB Thursday 1/19/2012 6:30-7pm
KGMB Sunday 1/22/2012 at 4:30-5pm
KHNL Thursday 1/26/2012 at 6:30-7pm
KHNL Saturday 1/28/2012 at 6 – 6:30pm
Airdates in February 2012

Throughout February on “Outside Hawai‘i” on OC16

Here's something to watch as well im interested to hear what is going to be talked about

Alohaz,

Bradda Muns

Brah, this state does so much to boost our tourist industry that they forget about our local people who are watching our home disappear! We gotta protect our watershed for what? So the state can tell us we cannot go there? So they can sell it to someone who will tell us we cannot go there? So it can provide water to the millions of people pouring in to our state every year, drinking our water, filling our sewers to the point that we have to dump sewage into our oceans polluting it to the point of life threatening conditions, then tell the local people malama o ke kai? The more water we provide the more we're gonna need cause they'll just keep coming!This state needs to find a way for us to stand on our own two feet instead of being so dependent on foreign influences (tourism, products, produce, oil, etc, etc, etc). They're running the local people over for the sake of the foreigners and their money! Will it ever end? Will there be a Hawaii for my kids to see? Or a Los Angeles in the middle of the sea? Another Place we cannot go! Another thing we cannot do! Another windmill to provide foreigners with electricity! Another "no fishing" beach for the sake of snorkeling! Mandatory million dollar homes on Hawaiian home lands (to lease not buy) to beautify the surroundings of the foreigners! Anyways, I'm getting carried away! But what's in it for us? What's in it for the local people? We gotta stand up for everything! Starting with the next thing they're trying to take away.

CHECK THIS OUT...What is the difference between the overthrow of Queen Liliuokalani and all the people at that time stole land to the difference of what is happening now with the land? The difference is now we pay for them to take the land with our tax dollars. They disguise this with their reports that they are keeping a natural pristine Hawaiian forest for us. When you go into these lands that they have taken, you go into a dead dormant forest with no life. Why do they need to take more land that they have never been able to manage? When I ask this question, they cannot answer. They give me politically correct answers with no logic.