NPS: What Do You Think About Helicopter Tours In Hawaii’s National Parks? … The federal government was supposed to make plans to reduce aircraft noise in parks two decades ago.
After a court ordered the federal government to follow its own law that says it needs to have formal plans to curb disruption from helicopter and plane tours over national parks, the National Park Service is asking what the public has to say about air tours over Haleakala and Hawaii Volcanoes national parks.
For years, residents on Maui and Hawaii island have raised alarms about the buzzing choppers and the disruption they cause in neighborhoods and natural areas. Eventually, a group of Big Island residents fed up with the noise — called Hawaii Island Coalition Malama Pono, or HICoP — teamed up with the Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility, a nonprofit that provides free legal services to push governments to follow their own environmental laws.
