Hawaii seeks end to strife over astronomy on sacred mountain


              FILE - Kupuna Noe Noe Wong-Wilson dances a morning hula with other kupuna and ki'ai during the seventh day of protests against the TMT telescope on July 22, 2019 at the base of Mauna Kea on Hawaii Island. For over 50 years, telescopes have dominated the summit of Mauna Kea, a place sacred to Native Hawaiians and one of the best places in the world to study the night sky. That's now changing with a new state law saying Mauna Kea must be protected for future generations and that science must be balanced with culture and the environment. (Jamm Acquino/Honolulu Star-Advertiser via AP, File)
            
              FILE - Officers from the Hawaii Department of Land and Natural Resources prepare to arrest protesters, many of them elderly, who are blocking a road to prevent construction of a giant telescope on a mountain that some Native Hawaiians consider sacred, on Mauna Kea on the Big Island of Hawaii on July 17, 2019. For over 50 years, telescopes have dominated the summit of Mauna Kea, a place sacred to Native Hawaiians and one of the best places in the world to study the night sky. That's now changing with a new state law saying Mauna Kea must be protected for future generations and that science must be balanced with culture and the environment. (Cindy Ellen Russell/Honolulu Star-Advertiser via AP, File)
            
              FILE - Native Hawaiian activists pray at the base of Hawaii's Mauna Kea, in the background on July 14, 2019. For over 50 years, telescopes have dominated the summit of Mauna Kea, a place sacred to Native Hawaiians and one of the best places in the world to study the night sky. That's now changing with a new state law saying Mauna Kea must be protected for future generations and that science must be balanced with culture and the environment. (AP Photo/Caleb Jones, File)
            
              From left state Sen. Donna Mercado Kim, activist Noe Noe Wong-Wilson, state Sen. Kurt Fevella and state Sen. Laura Acasio pose for photos at the end of the 2022 legislative session at the Hawaii State Capitol in Honolulu on May 4, 2022. Telescopes and the needs of astronomers have dominated the summit of Mauna Kea for 50 years but that's changing with a new state law saying the mountain sacred to Native Hawaiians must be protected for future generations and that science must be balanced with culture and the environment. (AP Photo/Audrey McAvoy, File)
            
              FILE - The sun sets behind telescopes on July 14, 2019, at the summit of the Big Island's Mauna Kea in Hawaii. For over 50 years, telescopes have dominated the summit of Mauna Kea, a place sacred to Native Hawaiians and one of the best places in the world to study the night sky. That's now changing with a new state law saying Mauna Kea must be protected for future generations and that science must be balanced with culture and the environment. (AP Photo/Caleb Jones, File)
Hawaii seeks end to strife over astronomy on sacred mountain