01-11-2016, 05:56 AM
Yes lavalava.
All my kids are smarter than myself, thankfully much smarter.
I think the fungus moves several ways including root to root, insect, wind, and or by simply hitchhiking on a bulldozer, chainsaw, helicopter, or boot. So This has been very frustrating to watch because I mentioned to many including helco's and geothermal managers several years back that all future land clearing or electric powerline helicopter flyovers around these parts should not be continued until we knew how this dieback was spreading? I also asked folks like Jay, Mike, and Billy's assistant Kevin if they could find the funds for a few fly overs to take pictures of the already dead and dying Ohia trees to compare with later? I asked J.B some off the wall questions like if he thought green harvest could be spreading this disease with there yearly helicopter raids in lower Puna? I basically got the run around or Geochem ways of treatment by all these folks, I thought could make the biggest difference at maybe the most important time. Now here we are years later still waiting on those mentioned funds for flyover mapping and pictures or proper handling of the soil and dead ohia trees.
P.S. I still have many notes from several years ago on how this ohia wilt seemed to spread and where we were first seeing it, I would be happy to share them. I also am pretty sure those gentleman I mentioned above could have recorded several of my calls to them years ago regarding this ohia wilt outbreak. Those early calls from residents like myself may be able to give a better time line to when or where this outbreak got started? One Positive side to this is we MAY be able to save Oahu's Ohia trees?
All my kids are smarter than myself, thankfully much smarter.
I think the fungus moves several ways including root to root, insect, wind, and or by simply hitchhiking on a bulldozer, chainsaw, helicopter, or boot. So This has been very frustrating to watch because I mentioned to many including helco's and geothermal managers several years back that all future land clearing or electric powerline helicopter flyovers around these parts should not be continued until we knew how this dieback was spreading? I also asked folks like Jay, Mike, and Billy's assistant Kevin if they could find the funds for a few fly overs to take pictures of the already dead and dying Ohia trees to compare with later? I asked J.B some off the wall questions like if he thought green harvest could be spreading this disease with there yearly helicopter raids in lower Puna? I basically got the run around or Geochem ways of treatment by all these folks, I thought could make the biggest difference at maybe the most important time. Now here we are years later still waiting on those mentioned funds for flyover mapping and pictures or proper handling of the soil and dead ohia trees.
P.S. I still have many notes from several years ago on how this ohia wilt seemed to spread and where we were first seeing it, I would be happy to share them. I also am pretty sure those gentleman I mentioned above could have recorded several of my calls to them years ago regarding this ohia wilt outbreak. Those early calls from residents like myself may be able to give a better time line to when or where this outbreak got started? One Positive side to this is we MAY be able to save Oahu's Ohia trees?