{"id":138,"date":"2009-03-21T21:53:13","date_gmt":"2009-03-22T00:53:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/myavma.ca\/blog\/?p=138"},"modified":"2009-03-22T10:47:11","modified_gmt":"2009-03-22T13:47:11","slug":"how-do-they-do-vegetation-management-in-hawaii-with-paintball-guns-of-course","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/myavma.ca\/blog\/2009\/03\/21\/how-do-they-do-vegetation-management-in-hawaii-with-paintball-guns-of-course\/","title":{"rendered":"How do they do Vegetation Management in Hawaii? With Paintball Guns Of Course!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Here is something different. Herbicide Ballistic Technology, or HBT as it is known, uses rapid fire paintball guns to fire herbicide at an invasive plant species.<\/p>\n<p>Below are two videos of trials conducted to combat a variety of invasive species. The ammunition is a gel cap, exactly like a paintball except the capsule is filled with a specially formulated herbicide.<\/p>\n<p>Dr. James Leary, CTAHR Invasive Weed Specialist, introduces HBT to control invasive weeds in Hawaii.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">[youtube]http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=hwM8qn0GLHQ[\/youtube]<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Dr. James Leary, UH-CTAHR Invasive Weed Specialist, returns to Kaua&#8217;i to view the impact of HBT applications with imazapyr (Habitat\u00ae) on Australian tree fern (Sphaeropteris cooperi), kahili ginger (Hedychium gardnerianum), and basal bark applications to strawberry guava (Psidium cattleianum). .<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">[youtube]http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=a9wI1WPVyUc[\/youtube]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here is something different. Herbicide Ballistic Technology, or HBT as it is known, uses rapid fire paintball guns to fire herbicide at an invasive plant species.<\/p>\n<p>Below are two videos of trials conducted to combat a variety of invasive species. The ammunition is a gel cap, exactly like a paintball except the capsule is filled with a specially formulated herbicide.<\/p>\n<p>Dr. James Leary, CTAHR Invasive Weed Specialist, introduces HBT to control invasive weeds in Hawaii.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28,15],"tags":[48,50,47,46,52,49,51],"class_list":["post-138","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-products","category-membersubmissions","tag-australian-tree-fern","tag-dr-james-leary","tag-hawaii","tag-hbt","tag-herbicide-ballistic-technology","tag-invasive-plants","tag-paintball"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/myavma.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/138","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/myavma.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/myavma.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/myavma.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/myavma.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=138"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/myavma.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/138\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/myavma.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=138"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/myavma.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=138"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/myavma.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=138"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}