Big Island Organizations & Programs Losing Funding

[Punatang]

Roger that Rob. Thanks for letting me know.

[HereOnThePrimalEdge]

Your interpretation sounds to me like we should wish Orange man goes away and this will never happen again.  In my experience that won't happen and this will happen again.

You’re still responding as if this is normal.  It has only happened once before, and the cause was the same.  The history of funding is in the OP link.  Saying “this will happen again” ignores the recent and upcoming protests in Hilo and elsewhere.

April 19th, Be There or Be Without Healthcare
https://www.fiftyfifty.one/events
   

[HereOnThePrimalEdge]

There is a proposal to change the long standing Endangered Species Act which would affect not only protected birds, bees, monk seals, but the habitats required for them to survive.

Proposed change to Endangered Species Act could threaten Hawaiʻi's unique biodiversity

The issue is of particular concern in Hawaiʻi. The islands have more endangered species than any other state — 40% of the nation’s federally listed threatened and endangered species — even though Hawaiʻi has less than 1% of the land area, according to the National Fish and Wildlife Foundation.

https://www.hawaiipublicradio.org/local-...odiversity

To comment:
https://www.federalregister.gov/document...pecies-act


And while they’re at it an executive order on Thursday opened the entire Pacific Remote Islands Marine National Monument, a protected area to commercial fishing.

https://www.civilbeat.org/2025/04/trump-...l-pacific/

So long, and thanks for all the fish.

[kalianna]

Done. Mahalo. I was not familiar with that site.

[ironyak]

Jumping back, what happened back in 2018/19 when clinics in Hawaii previously lost Title X funding? They reduced services and survived on more limited local funding while Hawaii joined 21 other states in suing the Trump administration over the funding cuts. Lots of money out for Hawaii tax payers on both fronts, until the funding was ultimately restored in 2022 under Biden.

https://www.civilbeat.org/2025/04/trump-...l-pacific/
"Maxx Phillips, the Center for Biological Diversity’s Hawai‘i and Pacific Island director, said in a statement Thursday that the remote Pacific island areas now poised to see commercial fishing “are not just dots on a map — they are lifeboats of biodiversity and cultural heritage.”

Well there's your problem - diversity, bio or otherwise, is no longer allowed. Don't they understand that the regime only cares about overly-cooked white fish?

Several of the comments on the proposed change went into more detail about the spill-over effect shown by studies where nearby fisheries see an increase in catches because these protected areas allow for more and larger fish to develop before venturing out. It's actually better for business long term to keep large productive habitats off limits instead of a one-time razing of the resources. Like those old sustainability folks used to say - don't eat your seed stock, or you can shear a sheep many times but skin it only once, etc...

Otherwise so long and thanks for to all the fish - FTFY ;)

[MyManao]

There is a proposal to change the long standing Endangered Species Act..

Maybe it's time Hawaii, the Hawaiian community, stands up and protect our own. 

Fuck the feds.. Hawaii needs to stand on its own as a sovereign. It don't matter statehood or independent, it doesn't matter white people's rule or native's. We just need to stop thinking someone else should take care of our kuleana.

So.. the ocean needs protecting.. the feds give up.. we need a knowledgeable organization to interpret the dangers from our volcanoes, and the feds give up. We have a substantial swath of our population that lives under the poverty line.. and the feds seem poised to give up on them too. 

Do you really think poor people without healthcare is good FOR YOU? I don't care how much money you got, how high the fence is around your place.. this is our community no matter.. isn't it?

So.. what? Are we suppose to just roll over and go 'oh well' and turn our eyes away from homelessness? Are we to watch the seismos go quiet and just say 'oh well'? Our reserves, our endangered species, is "oh well" really the answer? At what point do these things matter? And, at what point are we, as a society, a state, an island nation, going to recognize these things are our kuleana?

And no, I don't expect Josh Green to get it.. though I have "faith" he's trying. I suspect the Hawaiians are far better suited to the task..

[Punatang]

There is a proposal to change the long standing Endangered Species Act..

Maybe it's time Hawaii, the Hawaiian community, stands up and protect our own. 

Fuck the feds.. Hawaii needs to stand on its own as a sovereign. It don't matter statehood or independent, it doesn't matter white people's rule or native's. We just need to stop thinking someone else should take care of our kuleana.

So.. the ocean needs protecting.. the feds give up.. we need a knowledgeable organization to interpret the dangers from our volcanoes, and the feds give up. We have a substantial swath of our population that lives under the poverty line.. and the feds seem poised to give up on them too. 

Do you really think poor people without healthcare is good FOR YOU? I don't care how much money you got, how high the fence is around your place.. this is our community no matter.. isn't it?

So.. what? Are we suppose to just roll over and go 'oh well' and turn our eyes away from homelessness? Are we to watch the seismos go quiet and just say 'oh well'? Our reserves, our endangered species, is "oh well" really the answer? At what point do these things matter? And, at what point are we, as a society, a state, an island nation, going to recognize these things are our kuleana?

And no, I don't expect Josh Green to get it.. though I have "faith" he's trying. I suspect the Hawaiians are far better suited to the task..

(emphasis added)

This is the wisest post I've ever read on Punaweb. Mahalo MyMan. There is hope yet.

[HereOnThePrimalEdge]

We just need to stop thinking someone else should take care of our kuleana.
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This is the wisest post I've ever read on Punaweb. Mahalo MyMan. There is hope yet.

Yes.
One can only hope the billionaire members of our Puna community will realize they should stop constantly begging for another handout in budget legislation, and realize it’s only fair for them to pay the same percentage in taxes as most Punaweb members do. They’ll still have plenty of money left over to sail their megayachts along the East Hawaii coastline. On their way to other islands north, south, east or west. When they feel they’re no longer isolated and insulated enough from their neighbors who lost access to healthcare.

[HereOnThePrimalEdge]

Otherwise so long and thanks for to all the fish - FTFY

Let’s hope each and every one will be delicious, to make it all worthwhile.
Then perhaps we can move even farther back to the days when America and Volcano Hawaii were really great. Like the time Mark Twain was served dinner at Volcano House and ordered from the menu the “strawberry fed nene enveloped in leaves and baked in a hole in the heated earth.” Ummm… we’ll get there, after canceling one pesky environmental regulation at a time. It’ll take time, but not too much time as executive pens and chainsaws have made impatience easier to bear.

They don’t call them the good old days for nothing - - when a man could eat whatever flew, walked, crawled, or swam, full dominion over ALL creatures as God in Heaven above intended.

[MarkD]

impacts will be for Volcano National Park any day now.

The Visitor Center closed last night for remodeling & repairs that will take 18-24 months. 
Not sure how ironclad their contract with the Feds is.

The replacement for the Jagger Museum is still under construction at the KMC.
Again, funding contracts?

So Jaggar Museum will be replaced at HVNP? Good news and interesting.  A docent at the Pahoa Lava Zone Museum, which currently houses most of the lava and rock displays that used to be at Jaggar, said that HVNP has no plans to rebuild Jaggar and that the Lava Museum will permanently house those displays in Pahoa.  (They have a Facebook page.) The original Jaggar site on the pali overlooking the crater was fantastic; it's loss is missed.