The Waipa Stream is coming back to life, thanks to an ongoing and multifaceted restoration project within the Waipa Ahupua’a, or watershed.
Funded through a state Department of Health grant since 2016, the project aims to remove dense hau bush from stream banks and surrounding areas, clearing a path for healthy flow and space for native plants.
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Sarah Mendez is kayaking around Kauai for a cause.
Actually, it’s for three causes: to shed light on the problem with single-use plastics, provide clean drinking water for those who don’t have it, and clean up some of the most remote beaches in the world.
She’s not doing it alone. With the help of a friend who’s not comfortable with the public eye and a team of people from all walks of life, Mendez is embarking on a kayak trip to encircle the island the first week of November, 2019.
“Where are we supposed to go?”
It was January 13, 2018, a beautiful morning on Kauai. The sun was out, the trade winds were breezing through and everyone, it seemed, was stuck in a traffic jam somewhere on the island. Strangers posed the question through open car windows in Kapaa’s standstill traffic that Saturday morning, about an hour after the Hawaii issued an incoming missile alert.
Those who were lucky enough to snag tables for breakfast at one of the overflowing restaurants in town swapped the same kinds of questions: “What could we really do?”
I wondered the same thing.
KILAUEA — Walking through the taro fields at the Quick family farm in Hanalei, it’s nearly impossible to see the koloa ducks between the plants until they take flight.
It’s even more difficult to see the dead ones, and for staff members at the Hanalei National Wildlife Refuge, that’s a problem.
Avian botulism has been dropping ducks in outbreaks that have been sweeping the population since 2011 — and it’s not just koloa ducks.
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New life is springing up around Kauai’s Gulick-Rowell House, one of the oldest structures on Kauai’s Westside and it’s a great place to check out some of the island’s history.
More than 100 different types of life, to be exact, and it’s all planted on a little more than an acre that surrounds Waimea Town’s iconic Gulick-Rowell House.
