Big Island Invasive Species Committee (BIISC)

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BIISC Public Outreach

BIISC published news articles

• Tropical gardening advice: Kona rubber vine eradication
  Article on Cryptostegia grandiflora in West Hawaii Today, 20 September 2009
• Awareness helps control invasive species - Plume poppy
  Article on Bocconia frutescens in West Hawaii Today, 6 September 2009
• Invasive species in the Big Island (pdf)
  Article on the Big Island Invasive Species Committee in the newsletter of the Kona Outdoor Circle, August 2009
• Australian tree ferns: Plant possible invasive concern
  Article on Cyathea cooperi in West Hawaii Today and Tribune-Herald, 6 September 2009

BIISC information booth presentations

• Mauna Kea Observatories Block Party, University of Hawaii Hilo campus, 24 October 2009

BIISC presentations

• Biocontrol successes in Hawaii, oral presentation by Page Else at the 2009 Hawaii Conservation Conference
• West Hawaii Fisheries Council meeting, 18 June 2009
• Imiloa summer lecture series
  
  • Biocontrol, 25 July 2009
  • Space technology and invasive species, 1 July 2009
• Island Issues radio interview, 1 February 2009

Other invasive species articles of interest to the Big Island

• Reseachers say varroa mite spread on Big Island is inevitable, Honolulu Advertiser, 21 September 2009
• Purple plague plotting: Miconia can be eradicated if we all pull together, Big Island Weekly News, 13 May 2009

BIISC brochures

• Big Island Invasion 2007
  The "Big Island Invasion" brochure contains information about BIISC, the committee's target species, and invasive plants to avoid using in landscaping.
• War on the purple plague (miconia control)
• What's in your backyard? (invasives around us)
• Plume poppy (pest alert)

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