Ohia trees are dying rapidly, Why?

[pbmaise]

If you want trees to rot and produce fungus fast, bury them. That is exactly what people did with big D9 when clearing lots in Puna.

Then take your big D9 covered in dirt and filled with fungus and bull doze another area.

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Regarding vectors to get the fungus into healthy trees, the introduction of a new insect in 2012 sounds like a good area to start.

" "Biological Control
Strawberry Guava
Psidium cattleianum
In 2012 Hawai‘i Department of Agriculture and USDA
Forest Service released the scale insect Tectococcus
ovatus for the control of strawberry guava (Psidium
cattleianum), one of Hawaii’s worst forest weeds, at
demonstration sites on the island of Hawai‘i. The scale is being monitored by the Forest Service Institute of Pacific Islands Forestry. Establishment of the scale has occurred slowly but reproduction has been observed at the field sites."
www.fs.fed.us/psw/topics/biocontrol/strawberryguava/strawberry_guava.shtml