Ohia trees are dying rapidly, Why?

[bluesboy]

ohia have probably been here for millions and millions of years. the oldest seamounts near the aleutian islands, which drifted there from here, are close to 90 million years old. who knows how many older seamounts have been subducted prior to those? at any rate, just because kilauea is only 500K years old, doesn't mean that's when ohias were introduced. they're on all the other islands, and likely jumped from one volcano to the next as it erupted. eventually loihi will be above the sea, and ohia will make their way over there. so ohia was definitely here before man. probably before man even walked this earth.