OISC service trip:
Very dismal weather, but our volunteers keep on smiln'.
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A beautiful hike down into the crater. Hi Ho... |
Hi Ho...
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The endangered ihi ihilauakea fern. It looks like it's drowning from
all the rain, but this rare fern actually needs short periods of heavy
rainfall in order to reproduce.
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It's off to work we go...Volunteers begin working to remove dry grasses that would easily catch fire. |
Fire would quickly spread with all this grass and quickly wipe out the
few remaining populations of the ihi ihilauakea fern.
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After picture of the volunteers hard work to create a fire break. |
After a dark and rainy morning our volunteers kept their spirits high and the sun eventually came out, making a beautiful end to our day. |
14 March 2009 OISC service trip.
OISC Volunteers helped create fire breaks and removed invasive plants in order to protect the endangered ihi ihilauakea fern (Marsilea villosa.). This rare fern resembles a four leaf clover and loves dry lowland habitat, which is why volunteers had to hike into a crater near Hanauma Bay to get to the worksite.
As always, thank you to all of the volunteers who are helping to protect our native species!
| The Hawaiian Ecosystems at Risk project (HEAR) is currently funded by grants from the Hau'oli Mau Loa Foundation and the U.S. Forest Service with support from PCSU (UH Manoa). Historically, HEAR has also received funding and/or support from the Pacific Basin Information Node (PBIN) of the National Biological Information Infrastructure (NBII), PIERC (USGS), the USFWS, HCSU (UH Hilo), and HALE (NPS). |
| This page was created on 22 May 2009 by PN |
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