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Free Landowner Workshop: Managing Chokecherry Trees on Your Property
Better Together: KP-CISMA 2025 Annual Report
We’re thrilled to share the KP-CISMA’s 2025 Annual Report! If 2025 taught us anything, it’s the true meaning of “strength in numbers.” By pooling our resources and leaning on one another, we took on projects that no single organization could (or perhaps should) tackle...
FREE Landowner Assistance for Invasive Chokecherry Tree Removal and Replacement
Tired of your invasive chokecherry trees? Our partners at the Kenai and Homer Soil & Water Conservation Districts might be able to help – at no cost to you!
Join us for the annual Seward Community Weed Pull!
Celebrate Solstice by rolling up your sleeves and joining KP-CISMA partners to pull invasive chokecherry seedlings at Seward’s Forest Acres Park.
2024 Annual Report is Live!
We are thrilled to share the KP-CISMA’s 2024 Annual Report, which highlights just a handful of our dedicated partners’ projects and achievements of the past year. We invite you to peruse the report and explore the impact the KP-CISMA has had this past year and some of...
Get Involved: Join us for the 2024 Seward Community Weed Pull
Looking for a unique way to celebrate Solstice (and get a free t-shirt)? Roll up your sleeves and join us for the 2024 Seward Community Weed Pull!
Twenty Years of Partnership
The Kenai Peninsula Cooperative Invasive Species Management Area (KP-CISMA) celebrates 20 years of collaborative invasive species prevention and management across the 6-million-acre Kenai Peninsula! What started in 2003 as Cooperative Weed Management Area, with...
Slugs, Allelopathy, and the Allure of Invasive Species: My Experience as an Invasive Species Outreach Intern
Louise Tymrak worked as an invasive species outreach intern for Homer Soil & Water Conservation District during the spring of 2023.
Invasive Species 101, Part 4: The Human Component
All invasive species are introduced, but not all introduced species become invasive. Some introduced species have biological traits that make them more successful invaders than other species.