Posted February 22, 2016 by Rachel Smith Its the 4th annual Hawaii Invasive Species Awareness Week! Throughout the week, KISC would like to acknowledge all the hard work that has gone into … [Read more...]
Rain Gardens in the Rainiest Place on Earth
Posted January 28, 2016 by Rachel Smith Invasive Species have no boundaries, do not care about borders, and they aren’t picky. They thrive in high elevation ecosystems, on slopes of hills and m … [Read more...]
The Cost of Invasive Species
Posted November 24, 2015 by Rachel Smith Hawai‘i is known as the endangered species capital of the world. Home to some of the worlds rarest plants and declining numbers of endemic birds, H … [Read more...]
Invasive Impacts on Erosion
Posted September 22, 2015 by Rachel Smith Invasive species are increasingly becoming one of the greatest threats to healthy working ecosystems.According to the International Union for Conservation … [Read more...]
Spot the Ant, Stop the Ant Month
Posted September 9, 2015 by Rachel Smith September is statewide Little Fire Ant (LFA) month. Government and conservation organizations are teaming up across the state to bring awareness to the … [Read more...]
Be a Guardian of the Garden Isle!
Posted August 20, 2015 by Rachel Smith Guardian, defender, conservator, steward, caretaker, are all words to describe the residents of Kauai who make an effort to protect the beautiful garden … [Read more...]
Using Insects for IPM
Posted August 6, 2015 by Rachel Smith To wrap up the Integrated Pest Management (IPM) blog series, today’s topic is Biological Control, otherwise referred to as Bio Control. Bio control is a m … [Read more...]
Managing Pests with Paintballs
Posted July 21, 2015 by Rachel Smith As previously presented in the foregoing blog posts, KISC uses Integrated Pest Management and a combination of methods to control our targeted plant pest … [Read more...]
Muscles and Machines
Posted July 14, 2015 by Rachel Smith As previously stated in the “Walking the Line” blog posted July 2nd, I would expand in detail about how we implement the practice of Integrated Pest Management ( … [Read more...]
Walking the Line
Posted July 2, 2015 by Rachel Smith Disclaimer: This is the first of a 4 post series that will all relate back to this initial post. I will take you through the processes we use to effectively … [Read more...]
Phasing Out Fire Ants
Posted June 15, 2015 by Rachel Smith The Little Fire Ant population on Kauai is well on its way to being phased out. Last week the KISC crew, along side the Hawaii Ant Lab (HAL) crew, and Craig … [Read more...]
It’s Been a While…
Posted June 5, 2015 by Rachel Smith Whew! Its been over a year since the last post. Well, a lot has happened. Most people are probably aware we said "goodbye" to long time project manager Keren … [Read more...]
KISC Working Hard for the Money
Posted May 8, 2014 by KISC With the 3rd Fiscal Quarter under our proverbial belt, it is time to start polishing off our draft budgets and renew friendships with funders to remind them of how valuable … [Read more...]
Partnerships Educate the Public
During the last week in June, new signs went up at the Young Brothers, Inc facility at the Nawiliwili harbor marking the completion of months of hard work planning and collaborating between KISC, the … [Read more...]
A New Year Dawns
Another new year has begun, and with it came a realization that we still have so much to do as far as discovery and understanding. We (collectively here at KISC) have decided to dub this the “Year of L … [Read more...]
