KWP Past Events

February 5, 2015—The Hawai‘i Association of Watershed Partnerships (HAWP) presents a capacity building workshop for conservation professionals statewide. The workshop will highlight innovative approaches in conservation and natural resource management, specifically imagery and image technology. Sharing technology-based practices is critically important for resource managers to keep pace with rapidly expanding technologies and applications. The workshop will feature presentations on satellite imagery applications and advances, LIDAR, unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs), remote camera applications, and field applications for smart tablets.

January 31, 2015—Fountain grass is from Northern Africa, where it is well-adapted to droughts and frequent fires. It displaces slow-growing native dry forest species in Hawai‘i, and when it burns, it creates hot, fast fires that kill native seeds and plants. Unfortunately, the fountain grass itself is not killed by these fires, so the resulting cycle of growth and fire creates dense thickets of a single species: fountain grass.

January 19, 2015—Aloha and Happy New Year, wonderful volunteers! Please join us on Martin Luther King Day for a day of invasive weed control in the wet forest of Kohala.