SITE LISTINGS: Leeward Islands

	Access to Island Chain Before Public [Detail] Hawaii's Newspaper Online, Hawaii news and information from the state's largest daily newspaper. Category : Leeward Islands

	NWHI Reserve Preservation Areas Designation [Detail] Restrictions and impact of the Presidential order creating 15 'Reserve Preservation Areas'. Category : Leeward Islands

Leeward Islands - The Northwestern Hawaiian Islands [Detail] On May 26, 2000, President Clinton directed the Secretaries of the Interior and Commerce, in cooperation with the State of Hawaii and in consultation with the Western Pacific Regional Fishery Management Council, to develop recommendations by August 25 for a new, coordinated management regime to increase protection for the coral reef ecosystem of the Northwestern Hawaiian Islands and provide for sustainable use. Category : Leeward Islands

Leeward islands - Ocean Conservancy : Issues : Ocean Places : Northwestern Hawaiian Islands [Detail] Remote and still relatively pristine, the Northwestern Hawaiian Islands stretch like jewels 1,200 miles into the Pacific. Among them, they encompass the vast majority of our nation's coral reefs. Some—such as those found at Kure Atoll—are thought to be among the world's oldest living reefs. Category : Leeward Islands

NOAA Ocean Explorer: NW Hawaiian Islands - Leeward Islands [Detail] Leeward Islands - About 70 percent of all coral reefs in U.S. waters are in the Northwestern Hawaiian Islands (NWHI), a remote chain of small islands and atolls that stretches for more than 1,000 nautical miles (nm) northwest of the main Hawaiian Islands. This fall, a team of scientists traveled there to study unexplored seamounts and map pristine coral reefs. Category : Leeward Islands