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Web Environmental Photos: Scenes from around the United States - Poipu Beach, Kauai, Hawaii

CHURCH IN RURAL DISTRICT ALONG HIGHWAY 36 NEAR HANA. RURAL DISTRICTS ARE COMPOSED OF LOW DENSITY RESIDENTIAL LOTS OF ONE BUILDING PER HALF ACRE

MASSED HIGHRISES OF WAIKIKI DISTRICT, FAVORITE OF TOURISTS SEEN FROM TOP OF DIAMOND HEAD, THE FAMOUS EXTINCT VOLCANO. THE WAIKIKI IMPROVEMENT ASSOCIATION HAS FORMED AN ARCHITECTURAL DESIGN REVIEW BOARD TO OVERSEE SUCH BUILDING, BUT IT IS PROBABLY TOO LATE. IN 1963 THERE WERE 9,203 HOTEL ROOMS IN ALL OF OAHU ISLAND. TODAY THERE ARE SOME 26,000 ROOMS, MOST OF THEM HERE IN WAIKIKI

DEVELOPERS SIGN, EVIDENCE OF LAND SPECULATION IN PUNA AREA NEAR KALAPANA. VOLCANIC SOIL AND ARID CONDITIONS INHABIT AGRICULTURE, MAKING LAND SPECULATION POPULAR IN THIS AREA. LAND USE LAWS ENACTED IN 1961 ARE A RESTRICTING FACTOR

OLD CHURCH IN KEOMUKU, A "GHOST TOWN" ON THE ISLAND'S EAST SHORE, WHERE DEVELOPERS PLAN TO BUILD A HOTEL. IN A CONTROVERSIAL DECISION, THE LAND USE COMMISSION RECENTLY RECLASSIFIED THOUSANDS OF ACRES ON THIS PREDOMINANTLY AGRICULTURAL ISLAND FOR URBAN USE THE DECISION IS BEING CONTESTED IN THE COURTS

HONOLULU INTERNATIONAL AIRPORT HANDLES ALMOST ALL OF THE ISLAND'S VISITORS. SOME 2.7 MILLION ARE ANTICIPATED IN 1973

SEA LIFE PARK, LIKE PARADISE PARK, IS A COMMERCIAL ENTERPRISE BUILT IN A CONSERVATION ZONE. AN EXTENSIVE COLLECTION OF MARINE LIFE RANGING FROM ANEMONES TO WHALES IS IMAGINATIVELY DISPLAYED. THE STATE DEPARTMENT OF LAND AND NATURAL RESOURCES CONTROLS LAND USE IN CONSERVATION DISTRICTS WHICH ARE PRIMARILY FOREST AND WATER RESERVE LANDS

PLANTING SUGARCANE. SUGARCANE IS THE CHIEF AGRICULTURAL PRODUCT OF THIS ISLAND AND IS NOT AT PRESENT THREATENED BY DEVELOPERS. SUGARCANE IS GROWN MAINLY IN THE ISLANDS' CENTRAL VALLEY, WHERE FRESH WATER IS AVAILABLE

HEAVY EQUIPMENT USED IN PLANTING SUGARCANE, MAUI'S CHIEF AGRICULTURAL PRODUCT

PREPARING TO PARADE ON ALOHA DAY DURING ANNUAL ALOHA WEEK OF FESTIVITIES

PEARL CITY, ON THE WEST SIDE OF HONOLULU, IS THE FASTEST GROWING AREA IN ALL OF HAWAII. THE STATE ADMINISTRATION WOULD LIKE OAHU RESIDENTS TO CONSIDER MOVING TO THE NEIGHBORING ISLANDS, BUT MEANWHILE THE LAND USE COMMISSION REZONED THIS LAND, ADJOINING AN OLDER DEVELOPMENT, AS APPROPRIATE FOR URBAN DESIGNATION

SUGARCANE WORKERS IN BONNETS OF A KIND CUSTOMARILY WORN BY THE JAPANESE WHO LABORED HERE A QUARTER OF A CENTURY EARLIER WORKERS ARE NOW MOSTLY FILIPINOS