See this front page article in Wednesday’s Honolulu Advertiser.
“DLNR has already cut back on some of its efforts due to budget shortfall
By Dan Nakaso
Advertiser Staff Writer
Hawaii’s struggling real estate industry could have an unanticipated consequence on the Islands’ fragile environment because money to guard against foreign plants and animals is tied to the state’s dwindling conveyance tax levied on home sales.
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Some managers with the state Department of Land and Natural Resources are telling their enforcement staffs that their efforts to wipe out everything from noisy coqui frogs to carpets of invading algae to domineering miconia plants could disappear as lawmakers struggle to close a nearly $1 billion budget shortfall.”
See this front page article in Wednesday’s Honolulu Advertiser.
