Fevella proposes change in steward of Mauna Kea

HONOLULU — Sen. Kurt Fevella (R - ‘Ewa Beach, Ocean Pointe, ‘Ewa by Gentry, Iroquois Point, portion of ‘Ewa Villages) has issued an open letter to the state Department of Land and Natural Resources and the consultant recommending that the University of Hawai‘i be replaced as the steward of the department’s Mauna Kea Comprehensive Management Plan by a nonprofit Native Hawaiian group or groups that the senator believes will be a better “caretaker of the ‘aina of Mauna Kea” than UH has proven to be “ever since the first telescope was proposed and built there 50 years ago in 1970.”

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