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‘We have
40 years of
complaints’
Group files lawsuit against
FAA for failing to implement
Air Tour Management Plan
By MICHAEL BRESTOVANSKY
Hawaii Tribune-Herald
A lawsuit filed by a Big Island
group seeking to limit helicopter traffic
over the island will go before the
U.S. Court of Appeals in November.
The Hawaii Island Coalition Malama
Pono — HICoP for short — will submit oral
arguments in a
lawsuit against the
Federal Aviation
Administration
Nov. 1.
The lawsuit
seeks an injunction
for the FAA to
implement the Air
Tour Management
Plan over Hawaii
Volcanoes National
Park, something
both the FAA
and the National
Park Service
has failed to do for 18 years despite
Congressional legislation, said Bob Ernst,
founding board member of HICoP.
“You can look back, we have 40 years
of complaints about helicopter noise on the
island,” Ernst said. “We tried the administrative,
tried legislative, but we got nothing.”
The Air Tour Management Plan was signed
into law in 2000 and regulates air traffic
above national parks in order to “mitigate
or prevent the significant adverse impacts,
if any, of commercial air tour operations
upon the natural and cultural resources,
visitor experiences, and tribal lands.”
See PLAN Page A6
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Issue No. 273
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Associated Press
Sen. Mazie Hirono, D-Hawaii, talks with reporters as she walks Tuesday on Capitol Hill in Washington.
KAILUA-KONA — The
Hawaii senator in the national
spotlight for her blunt criticisms
of male behavior surrounding
the controversial Supreme Court
nomination said questions about
one of her own male political
allies with a checkered domestic
past are nothing more than “more
manufactured moral outrage led
by the Republican leadership.”
Sen. Mazie Hirono grabbed
headlines around two weeks
ago when she told men in the
country to “just shut up and
step up. Do the right thing
for a change” in regards to
investigating the high court’s
nominee, Brett Kavanaugh, of
sexual assault allegations.
Kavanaugh is accused of
sexually assaulting Christine
Blasey Ford when the two were
teenagers. Since Ford’s allegation
became public, two more accusers
have come forward with reports
that Kavenaugh assaulted them
when they were students. On
Friday, President Donald Trump
ordered an FBI investigation be
conducted into the claim before
Two ‘alala
from
the 2017
group
in January.
DLNR photo
‘Alala take to the skies
One year after the successful
release of 11 ‘alala into the wild,
conservationists released five more of
the Hawaiian crows earlier this week.
Five captive-reared ‘alala, two
females and three males, were
released into the Pu‘u Maka‘ala
Forest Reserve Monday, bringing
the number of known ‘alala
outside of captivity up to 16.
The release of the five birds, as
well as the continued survival of the
11 birds released in 2017, marks
another milestone for the ‘Alala
Project, a collaboration between the
U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, the
state Department of Land and Natural
Resources and San Diego Zoo
Global that works to restore Hawaii’s
only native crow species to the wild.
Jackie Gaudioso-Levita, ‘Alala
Project coordinator, said the five
birds released Monday were
observed foraging for native plants
within an hour of leaving their
aviary. The crows have undergone
wild food training to help them
survive, as well as anti-predator
Five additional crows
released into the wild
By MICHAEL BRESTOVANSKY
Hawaii Tribune-Herald
See ‘ALALA Page A6
By TOM HASSLINGER
West Hawaii Today
See HIRONO Page A7
“You can look back,
we have 40 years
of complaints about
helicopter noise on
the island. We tried
the administrative,
tried legislative, but
we got nothing.”
BOB ERNST
HICoP founding board member
Vuls taste
victory
again
SPORTS, B1
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