Events

As part of Hawai‘i Invasive Species Awareness month, Dr. Clay Trauernicht will focus on the grass-fire cycle at the landscape scale to describe the scale of the challenge at hand,…

University of Hawaiʻi’s Kevin Faccenda and Dr. Clay Trauernicht Wildland Fire Specialist will introduce how certain invasive plants promote wildfire in Hawai‘i and how the new Weed Fire Risk Database analyzes 360+ weed species for their fire-promoting traits.

University of Hawaiʻi’s Kevin Faccenda and Kelsey Brock will present on the process of identifying fire-promoting invasive plants and their impacts in Hawaiʻi via the new tool: the Weed Fire Risk Assessment.

Christine Fejeran, Guam Department of Agriculture, Forestry and Soil Resources Division describes the wildfire threats to ecosystems and people on Guam, the on-going education challenges, and hopes for the future.

Eric Moller, Deputy Chief of Hawai‘i County Fire Department shares his perspective of the changing fire regimes in Hawai‘i, current challenges and how we can help.