LEVEL I -- BASE PROGRAM.
1. IMPLEMENTATION OF CONTROL ACTIVITIES.
Activities & Timelines:
1) Search for and destroy Miconia plants in likely areas in a logical pattern.
[Timeline: ongoing, present through June 30, 2000]
The search for miconia during the FY2000 included work at 44 sites throughout six districts of Hawaii County.
In Hamakua, a miconia plant was reported at Kukuihaele. Ground and air surveys of this site with the reporting party produced no miconia. Report was a misidentified plant.
Surveys and treatment were conducted on 6060 acres within South Hilo district at 14 sites. 1885 mature trees and 13,587 immature plants were destroyed. 287 acres were surveyed in North Hilo, 3 seedlings were uprooted.
The Puna district had work done at 24 sites, covering 4541 acres. Mature trees destroyed numbered 1384, and 13,109 immature plants were uprooted or treated.
At Honaunau, South Kona 23 trees and 149 immature plants were found and destroyed on 2150 acres of forest land.
2500 acres at Honalo, North Kona were surveyed by ground and by air. Teams destroyed 11 mature plants and 29 immature plants. Seed production has been stopped for the time being.
Table 1. District area Miconia control data.
Table 2. is a complete list of sites visited from the ground during this
grant period. Details on total acreage, plants found and destroyed are given
for each site.
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