TMT construction begins Monday 15 July

[rainyjim]

Here’s my view - based on a hypothetical scenario: Before the telescopes a rare native plant existed on the summit of Mauna Kea and only on the summit - similar to a silver sword - just for practicality. Since the telescopes and UH (or whatever current entity has regulated the land, OMKM et al) have been on Mauna Kea, extensive pressure from an island wide ungulate population boom have contributed greatly to the decimation of the Mauna Kea silver swords putting them on the endangered list today in 2019.

The above - lack of fencing? Etc and protection of the, albeit fictional, Mauna Kea silver swords would be something I would call mismanagement.

End hypothetical.

Since there are no plants or animals (shh weiku bugs which are fine) up there to mismanage then what exactly went wrong? And when?

The only claims i’ve even heard are stuff like: ‘spill of x gallons of orange coolant or trash leftover from construction being airlifted off by helicopters’

Neither of which seem like mismanagement, in the coolant issue it sounds like an accident and one time event, and trash left over from construction which was then removed seems ordinary per any construction project.

I just don’t get it and it makes me suspect the whole claims of mismanagement are entirely bogus.