Ohia trees are dying rapidly, Why?

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Concern here.

What could be done now, for endangered creatures that are losing their homes to this tree Ebola(ROD)? You know Birds like the honeycreeper.

https://www.beautyofbirds.com/hawaiianho...epers.html

Rolling my eyes on this one! Now the scientists believe the beetle may be helping the quick spreading of this (ROD), OMG. My wife looked J.B Friday in the eyes and asked four years ago, "if the boring beetles could be spreading this disease?"

http://westhawaiitoday.com/news/local-ne...hia-fungus

Only Self Reminders and opinions here pog, click off.

It took years and several repeated concerned calls to the dlnr, Mayor's office, helco, Ormats Geothermal, UHH university, forest division, OHA, and many others, to finally have anyone drive out to LOOK at the many dying ohia trees. J.B. Friday couldn't come out to look at the dying ohia trees in 2011, his excuse was "no class of students at the time".

Finally after another round of calls sometime In 2012, J.B Friday and a couple colleagues did drive out for a visit (20 minutes). Before J.B left he assured us that the dying Ohia we had showed him were "NOT" being killed by a fungus. He said "it was part of a natural ohia die-off". He also said "The bore beetles were nothing to worry about because they had never been known to kill any trees bigger than 8 inches in diameter,let alone ohia".
We mentioned to J.B. that this disease had been spreading for a couple years around these parts, unfortunatly unchecked. He told us, there really wasn't any funds "his hands were tied". They couldn't even take a helicopter flight to take pictures of the current path of ohia disease.
Although we were relieved J.B had finally seen the dying ohia trees with his own eyes. It also wasn't hard to tell that J.B friday wasn't carrying one of those special government P-cards. Four Years, and hundreds of thousands of dead ohia trees later, we are still finding it increasingly hard to trust any governmental or environmental protection agencies ideas, plans or actions,jmo.