In a decision issued August 3, 2006 Judge Glenn Hara of the Third Circuit Court reversed the permit granted to the University of Hawaiʻi Institute of Astronomy by the state Board of Land and Natural Resources (BLNR) to build additional telescopes. The ruling stops NASA’s $50 million plan to construct up to six more telescopes on Mauna Kea.

For more information please see the following links:
Too much telescope
Big Island Weekly
November 7, 2007
http://www.bigislandweekly.com/articles/2007/11/07/read/news/news01.txt

The New Mauna Kea Management Plan: Mobolizing Public Involvement
Kahea – Hawaiian Environmental Alliance
Winter 2006
http://www.kahea.org/enews/dec_06/index.html

Hawaiʻi Judge Reverses Permit for More Mauna Kea Telescopes
Environment News Service
August 7, 2006
http://www.ens-newswire.com/ens/aug2006/2006-08-07-04.asp

History of Mauna Kea Controversy
Sacred Land Film Project
August 2006
http://www.sacredland.org/endangered_sites_pages/mauna_kea.html

Cultures clash atop Mauna Kea
The Honolulu Advertiser – Island Life
Sunday, July 9, 2006
http://the.honoluluadvertiser.com/article/2006/Jul/09/il/FP607090319.html

Sacred Temple or Window on the Universe – Or Both?
Honolulu Weekly
March 27, 2002
http://www.honoluluweekly.com/archives

At a full-house ceremony held August 28, 2007 at the Hawaiʻi Convention Center, the Hawaiʻi Tourism Authority (HTA), the state agency for tourism, announced the recipients of the prestigious Keep It Hawaiʻi Recognition Awards. Awards were presented to individuals, organizations and businesses in recognition of their commitment to perpetuate the Hawaiian culture. Recognizing long-term and exemplary commitment to perpetuating and preserving Hawaiʻi’s host culture, the 2007 Lehua Maka Noe Award was presented to the Royal Order of Kamehameha I, Māmala Hoa. Māmala Hoa was honored for their tireless efforts in presenting the Kamehameha Day Celebration on Moku Ola (Coconut Island), Hilo for the last twenty-two years.

All nominations were judged on the following criteria: authenticity, usage, uniqueness, educational value, longevity, and commitment to the future. HTA’s Hawaiian Cultural Program Advisory Council (HCPC) which is comprised of members of the Hawaiian community and the visitor industry reviewed the nominations and selected the awardees.

HCPAC members include:

• Peter Apo, founding member of the Native Hawaiian Hospitality Association (NaHHA);
• “Brother Noland” Conjugacion, Native Hawaiian musician, artist and teacher;
• Robbie Kaholokula, tourism specialist, County of Kauaʻi;
• Leona Mapuana Kalima, cultural specialist-special projects, Office of Hawaiian Affairs;
• Cheryl L. Kaʻuhane-Lupenui, president and chief executive officer, YWCA of Oʻahu;
• Elizabeth Kapuʻuwailani Lindsey, PH.D., president and chief executive officer, Pono, LLC;
• Debbie Nakanelua-Richards, senior manager of government and community relations, Hawaiian Airlines;
• Ramsay Taum, special assistant to the Dean on Host Culture & Community Outreach, School of Travel Industry Management at the University of Hawaiʻi at Manoa; and
• Michael White, general manager, Ka‘anapali Beach Hotel.

Māmala Hoa had the privilege and honor to help host President Franklin D. Roosevelt on his visit to Hilo on July 25, 1934, the first president of the United States to set foot on Hawaiian soil. On this occasion Māmala Hoa honored President Roosevelt with an elaborate and colorful Hawaiian parade.

In 1933 the Royal Order of Kamehameha I, Māmala Hoa, was honored by the County of Hawaiʻi by having its round-the-island highway named in its honor as Mamalahoa Highway. This is contrary to the common yet mistaken assumption that the highway is named after Kamehameha’s “Mamalahoe Kanaawai” or “Law of the Splintered Paddle” which provided safe travel and passage for commoners first on Moku O Keawe then throughout a untied Hawaiʻi. Today, Mamalahoa Highway is owned and maintained by the State of Hawaiʻi.