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The increases, estimated from $2 to $15, would take effect in April.
The National Park Service also is contemplating raising charges for other activities, such as rock climbing, boat launching, and back-country hiking. In all, 12 categories of fees will be boosted.
Ben Saldua, a supervisor at the Big Island park facility, today said he hadn't been informed of the increases.
The only park fee now collected on the Big Island is an entrance fee based on the number of occupants in a vehicle.
In addition to entrance-fee increases, Interior Secretary Bruce Babbitt is expected to boost charges for recreational activities in facilities run by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, the Bureau of Land Management and the Bu reau of Reclamation.
The National Guard, civil defense agencies, state Health Department and the city are to join with residents along the Waianae Coast and the North Shore to tackle the pollution problem. The teams will head out this weekend for the cleanup.
"You've all seen the diapers flowing, the garbage flowing," said Cayetano. "That can't continue."
The following Saturday, Nov. 30, there will be garbage pickup.
President Clinton - before he left Hawaii after a three-day vacation - approved the state's request for up to $5 million in federal aid to cope with the public health hazard caused by the torrential downpour.
Hundreds of thousands of acres of land that once nourished these native-wood forests were cleared to raise sugar cane, an industry that has all but disappeared in Hawaii because of global competition.
Yesterday, landowners and members of the forest industry met at a two-day symposium in Honolulu to learn how to replant sugar-cane fields with the now highly profitable koa.
"Some landowners are putting the land back into koa," said Lloyd Jones, president of the Hawaii Forest Industry Association. "They're finding it offers the best yield they can get from the land."
The rich, dark wood is highly valued for furniture, picture frames, and ornamental objects.
The moped rider sustained severe head injuries and a fractured left leg and was pronounced dead at the scene at midnight.
Police have opened a standard negligent homicide investigation into the case.
The moped rider was Honolulu-bound on Kamehameha Highway when he collided with the officer, 39, who was making a left turn to enter a driveway at 98-731 Kamehameha Hwy. near Puuponi Street, investigators said.
This is Oahu's 64th traffic fatality, compared to 73 at the same time last year.
The cause of the 5:38 a.m. blaze at a home owned and occupied by Thomas Torres was not immediately determined.
Fire damage was put at $130,000.
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