Mauna Kea summit to receive comprehensive planning - further telescope development won't occur without a comprehensive management plan to protect the summit's resources

Author:

Ward, Deborah J.

Title:

Mauna Kea summit to receive comprehensive planning - further telescope development won't occur without a comprehensive management plan to protect the summit's resources

Periodical:

Malama Ika Honua - Journal of the Sierra Club, Hawaii chapter

Year:

2006

Volume:

38

Pages:

p.1, p.3

Subject:

Outrigger Telescope Project W.M. Keck Observatory Conservation District Use Permit (CDUP) Telescopes Mauna Kea controversy

Summary:

This document describes a ruling that was handed down by Judge Glenn Hara in favor of the Sierra Club and others who demanded that a comprehensive management plan that would conserve, protect, and preserve the resources of Mauna Kea, on the island of Hawaii, be developed before the future construction of additional telescopes atop this sacred mountain be allowed. This reversed the granting of a Conservation District Use Permit that was issued by the Board of Land and Natural Resources that would have allowed the University of Hawaii's Institute for Astronomy to construct up to six 1.8 meter Outrigger Telescopes around the existing Keck Telescopes.

Label:

Mauna Kea - Astronomy

URL:

http://www.sierraclubhawaii.com/resources/oct06.pdf

Date:

October-December, 2006

Collection:

Periodicals