11-12th

grade

STUDENT
SOLUTIONS
UPPER DIVISION FIELD
ECOLOGY
Daniel Velasquez & Maria
Rosado
 Brief Summary

What We Know:
● High winds spread seeds
● Overrunning native
populations
● Remnants become
runoff
● Water makes them
stronger
● Prescribed burns
● Large root networks
 Background (Research) Information

Colonization Land Area Age-Old Problem

Invasive grasses 250 years and
25% of Hawaii land area
introduced in 1793; counting. Nobody’s
dominated by 6 in. long
Captain Cook times trying to remedy it
grass (Kluger, 2023)
(Kluger, 2023) (Kluger. 2023)

Materials Born From Fire The Grasses

Concrete is fire resistant. If soil disturbance
More aggregate, more The big bad wolf can’t occurred,then the
resistance (Homer et al. blow him down either! grasses would be a
2012) threat
SOLUTIONS
Our 3 viable solutions are

● Livestock that feed on well maintained

invasive grasses
● Community of dirt roads, trenches, tall
structures made of wind-breaking fire
resistant material.
● Shading the invasive guinea grass to cut
off their photosynthesis
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