Ohias dying

[Peter Epperson]

We have a few dying ohia trees in my yard and my wife called several state agencies just last week to see what is going on. Nobody had any definitive replies as to what is going on with the trees. Apparently there is more than one problem happening. Some dying ohias I've seen, like one of mine here, has piles of sawdust near the base of the trunk. It looks like some kind of beetle working on it. That doesn't explain why there are many acres of dead ohias in the national park though. On the road to Bird Park you can see an area where every single ohia tree is dead. Scary.