05-26-2016, 03:03 AM
Good morning HotpE.
You are probably right about the hiking boot possibility being a likely culprit. There has been some other places that has recently documented strange tree death, like this area in California.
https://pubs.usgs.gov/dds/dds-81/Intro/f...Trees.html
What's interesting or coincidental is that geothermal electricity is a lucrative business in the same areas of strange tree death like (mammoth lake) and (Puna).
http://www.mammothtimes.com/content/geot...ation-2013
If a large study was conducted for a hundred acres of dead trees around Mammoth lake, couldn't Puna's over 36,000 acres of dead and dying Ohia trees be worth a similar study?
I would hope that our good neighbor Ormat geothermal, would be open to helping fund a similar study or two. As To help strengthen their case for more or continued production and large profits from this area of Puna,jmo.
You are probably right about the hiking boot possibility being a likely culprit. There has been some other places that has recently documented strange tree death, like this area in California.
https://pubs.usgs.gov/dds/dds-81/Intro/f...Trees.html
What's interesting or coincidental is that geothermal electricity is a lucrative business in the same areas of strange tree death like (mammoth lake) and (Puna).
http://www.mammothtimes.com/content/geot...ation-2013
If a large study was conducted for a hundred acres of dead trees around Mammoth lake, couldn't Puna's over 36,000 acres of dead and dying Ohia trees be worth a similar study?
I would hope that our good neighbor Ormat geothermal, would be open to helping fund a similar study or two. As To help strengthen their case for more or continued production and large profits from this area of Puna,jmo.