You can now connect with the Maui Invasive Species Committee (MISC) using the COM Connect app on a smartphone. It's a mobile communication tool that gives citizens the ability to alert Maui County officials to various issues like abandoned vehicles, potholes, graffiti as well as report invasive species. "One of the ways to keep [Maui] beautiful is by preventing outbreaks of … [Read more...] about You can now connect to Maui Invasive Species Committee with your smartphone
Miconia
Remembering the late Maui scientist Lloyd Loope
By Maddox Royce When the invasive plant Miconia calvescens threatened to destroy Maui’s rainforest as it had in Tahiti, Maui scientist Lloyd Loope stepped forward to help to organize a committee to successfully control it. “Lloyd was very key in helping to set the course,” recalled Teya Penniman, a Maui Invasive Species Committee official. A Celebration of Loope’s life … [Read more...] about Remembering the late Maui scientist Lloyd Loope