tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7875069982976812251.post7975657221041959981..comments2023-10-17T04:51:08.765-10:00Comments on KauaiEclectic: Musings: Moonlight MadnessJoan Conrowhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00172330100788007499noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7875069982976812251.post-42343037088299405532008-04-21T22:11:00.000-10:002008-04-21T22:11:00.000-10:00Tree carnage at Kealia Kai? Those lots are so wind...Tree carnage at Kealia Kai? Those lots are so windswept (as the owner who cut down his windbreak will soon find out) that they ought to just put the windmills there. But that must be in an SMA zone and require real permits (as opposed to after the fact ones) to alter the landscaping. I also believe that part of the bike-path land swap involved the stipulation that houses would be set back and landscaped so as not to be visible from the path. I guess that went out the window in the strong wind.<BR/><BR/>Want to see more carnage? Drive Olohena Road. Kulana is just starting with some big dirt roads being graded (no dust fence or runoff barriers to be seen). But then you reach the curvy area near the one-lane bridge, and you have to stop and gasp. For about 500 feet of frontage and way up the foothills (quite literally) of the Sleeping Giant, all that was standing are palm trees, a whole forest gone. And the diggers were still hard at work last Friday. You can actually see the bare spot from the Kuilau trail picnic shelter, probably 5 miles away.<BR/><BR/>Granted this was all secondary forest, regrown over the pasture that was probably here before (the neighboring hills are still pasture), but still, whatever happened to actually preserving the forest, or at least some nice parts of it. Or what about a buffer between the road and the property? As it is, whatever monstrosity they build at the top of the hill will have the sound of cars and trucks wafting up with the breeze.<BR/><BR/>Saw a while back that the Big Island was struggling with this same slash-and-bulldoze mentality. Buy your acre of rain forest cheap, and hire a crew to make it flat, and who cares if a unique environment is disappearing. The state should control forest rights, just like water and mineral rights (just guessing, maybe they don't even bother with those in Hawaii--maybe our resident lawyer can enlighten us).Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7875069982976812251.post-46661486394847662862008-04-21T07:59:00.000-10:002008-04-21T07:59:00.000-10:00Thought your rooster event was most interesting th...Thought your rooster event was most interesting tho scary. You should have had him for dinner.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com