YAP: PROTECTING RESOURCES
By Scott Radway
HAGÃ TÃA, Guam (January 212, 2002 - Pacific Daily News/PINA Nius Online)---Yap environmentalist Margie Cushing Falanruw has a dream.
Falanruw believes that Yap State can master its traditional methods of farming and fishing to produce enough for its people and an export economy -- and still maintain its natural resources.
That way, the director of the Yap Institute of Natural Science said, the island will avoid many of the pitfalls of westernization and over-development -- like some of the ones that have riddled neighboring Guam.
What works on continents hasn't worked on small islands, said Falanruw, a resident of arguably the most traditional islands in Micronesia.