10-20-2008, 09:22 AM
alaskasteven,
good links, thanks!
getting the land-food-people link happening on Hawaii Island is certainly the challenge.
soil erosion on the Hamakua coast would probably not be from idle land, but, in recent years, construction.
30+ years ago, the water was brown at the mills and at the stream outlets into the ocean because of sugar cultivation and processing.
imho, a big 'environmental' catastrophe underway in the vast areas of idle land that was previously in sugar all over this island are the spread of very aggressive invasive plants -- albizia, ironwood, waiwi, 'Coster's curse', and others. The seedbanks are full and the invasives are moving beyond former cane lands and into conservation areas.
p.s. What to do about the land-food-people link? Maybe I'll start a nother topic on it. Meanwhile, I am confident that Angel Pilago has the vision to see the need for policies that maintain that link.
James Weatherford, Ph.D.
15-1888 Hialoa
Hawaiian Paradise Park
good links, thanks!
getting the land-food-people link happening on Hawaii Island is certainly the challenge.
soil erosion on the Hamakua coast would probably not be from idle land, but, in recent years, construction.
30+ years ago, the water was brown at the mills and at the stream outlets into the ocean because of sugar cultivation and processing.
imho, a big 'environmental' catastrophe underway in the vast areas of idle land that was previously in sugar all over this island are the spread of very aggressive invasive plants -- albizia, ironwood, waiwi, 'Coster's curse', and others. The seedbanks are full and the invasives are moving beyond former cane lands and into conservation areas.
p.s. What to do about the land-food-people link? Maybe I'll start a nother topic on it. Meanwhile, I am confident that Angel Pilago has the vision to see the need for policies that maintain that link.
James Weatherford, Ph.D.
15-1888 Hialoa
Hawaiian Paradise Park