Marine Protected Areas, Multiple-Agency Management, and Monumental Surprise in the Northwestern Hawaiian Islands

Box 1

Co-trustee relations.

(a) “If you were to put it on a scale of 1 to 10, I’d still put (the) relationship…somewhere in the middle: 5, 6?... I can tell you,

some of that comes from…unequal starting points, both organizationally and statutorily. … With the overall… theme

that we (want to) be coequal. Yet, there’s truth in the fact that we’re not.”

(b) “As soon as we became a monument, people started drawing lines in the sand. … It was really interesting…because our

cultures are so different, across NOAA (National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration) and (the U.S.) Fish and Wildlife

Services in particular, that it began a whole new way of engaging and trying to speak...

trying to communicate with different languages.”

(c) “When the monument was first designated, people made a concerted effort to really foster a team environment and I would

say that since then it (has) disintegrated, and we’ve gone back to each entity being very territorial.”

(d) “I think that there is kind of the day-to-day staff operation relationship, and then there’s the kind of upper level

superintendent type relationship, and I think those are very different. I think that the superintendent type relationship is strained,

and then at the staff level, I think my impression is its pretty good.”