07-04-2014, 04:02 AM
Just for discussion purposes I find a distinction in harvesting a small number of Ohia and actually using them (which happens often in Puna) compared to a commercial operation taking a couple million trees and selling them for profit to a railroad.
From what you are posting above you seem to appreciate this distinction too.
Puna has always been one of the more overly exploited areas of the state and still is... in the same manner that the Hawaiians themselves are still exploited by organized crime under the guise of The Department of Hawaiian Homelands. I see the same irony in the stated purpose versus the actual performance of the Department of Lands and Natural Resources.
So the wailing about a few trees being used for a local community performance center rings a bit hollow to me considering the overlaying level of graft and corruption here in Hawaii.
From what you are posting above you seem to appreciate this distinction too.
Puna has always been one of the more overly exploited areas of the state and still is... in the same manner that the Hawaiians themselves are still exploited by organized crime under the guise of The Department of Hawaiian Homelands. I see the same irony in the stated purpose versus the actual performance of the Department of Lands and Natural Resources.
So the wailing about a few trees being used for a local community performance center rings a bit hollow to me considering the overlaying level of graft and corruption here in Hawaii.
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