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Several #wildfires are burning across parts of Hawaii this week, fueled in part by strong winds from Hurricane Dora passing to the south. NOAA's GOESWest was tracking the hotspots and smoke from the fires as they burned across parts of Maui and the Big Island yesterday evening.

"Maui has the know-how to deal with wildfire risk" - I wrote this letter to The Maui News 5 years ago, after fires burned 21 homes in West Maui - and I would say the same exact things today mauinews.com/opinion/letter…

#Hawaii leaders say they were caught by surprise because the scale of Tuesday's fire was unprecedented. But the warning has been sounded for years. Marcel Honore @ThomasHeatonCB #HInews #Maui #MauiFires civilbeat.org/2023/08/mauis-…

Dicey line quoted here of me, and I stand by it specific to dry grassland areas When people have a relationship with plants or animals it encourages us to take care of landscapes and places for their benefit.

“This is, for us, genocide.” Keʻeaumoku Kapu headlines a rare piece in a sea of reporting about the Maui wildfires. Jackie McKay’s article in CBC Indigenous examines it in relation to the erasure of Kānaka Maoli & Hawaiian land rights. A must read. cbc.ca/news/indigenou…

I've worked with Elizabeth Pickett, the E.D. of @hawaiiwildfire, for >10 years. She's the backbone of the wildfire community here - no one has worked harder than her to make Hawai'i safer from fire

dude needs to see how guinea grass burns in Hawai'i

The Maui fires - as with nearly all fires in Hawai'i - are a result of failing to care for land. Changing that begins with caring for people

In 2019 we got to see Hawai'i's post-plantation fire regime emerge in real time. The last sugar plantation in the islands shut down 36,000 acres in central Maui in 2016. 3 years later, ~17,500 acres burned between July and October.

Hawai'i has had the ingredients for fire for a long time - droughts & rain shadows, human-caused ignitions, and lowland areas dominated by nonnative, fire-prone grasses. These fuels expanded as money moved from plantations & ranches to tourism & real estate in the 50s/60s

Noelani Ahia: Lahaina will not be rebuilt as a resort town Nick Estes The Red Nation #TheRedDeal Red Media youtu.be/2iNSK13QRsM?si…