Creager, Fred

Ekern, Paul

Harrison, John

Lamoureux, Charles

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University of Hawaii at ManoaEnvironmental CenterA Unit of Water Resources Research CenterCrawford 317.2550 Campus Road. Honolulu, Hawaii 96822Telephone: (808) 956-7361RL:01142SB 1160RELATING TO PUBLIC LANDSCAPINGSenate Committee onGovernment Operations, Environmental Protectionand Hawaiian ProgramsPublic Hearing - March 2, 199312:30 P.M., Room 305 SOTByJohn T. Harrison, Environmental CenterFred Creager, School of ArchitecturePaul Ekern, Emeritus, Agronomy and Soil ScienceCharles Lamoureux, Lyon ArboretumSB 1160 would amend section 103 -24.6, Hawaii Revised Statutes,to provide for use of polynesian introduced plants in pubLf,clandscaping.Our statement on this bill does not constitute aninstitutional position of the University of Hawaii.In general our reviewers favored this measure, although therewas some question as to what criteria were included within thecontext of feasibility (p.l, line 5), and whether or not such alevel of legislation constituted micromanagement. Certainly, inprinciple, there is no danger of any of these plants becoming anoxious weed, in that if that were a possibility, they wouldalready be one.We would suggest thatspecies" be defined somewhere,these are one of the 25 or soby the colonizing polynesiansthe term, "polynesian introducedand that the definition specify thatspecies that were brought to Hawaiilong before Europpean contact.An Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action Institution

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