01-27-2017, 03:00 PM
So I think it is fairly clear that the recently recommended protocol of cleaning vehicles (to prevent spreading ROD associated fungal blight) is geared toward those of us living on dirt roads in Puna where ROD is rampant. This is the problem with that plan. If a country dweller has to drive over a mile of dirt roads of an infected forest (that are often populated with bathtub-deep puddles) in order to get home, then once home, washes their truck, THEN has to turn around and drive back out over the mile of dirt roads (with bathtub deep puddles), to go anywhere, it has all been no more than an exercise in futility. If we lived on paved drives that abutted paved roads, then one could reasonably wash their car and expect to have it be worth the effort..... bu-u-u-t those on paved roads aren't really the ones that may be transporting the elements of the disease. I think the disconnect is that people trying to create protocol are not familiar with the day to day interactions we forest dwellers have with the elements.
Studying the inner workings of the symbiotic systems of the forest is the best bet for finding solutions. Letting the forest do some of the work for us is just good ergonomics. How would the forest deal with this if we were not here?... is the main question. Reverse engineering the tree, seems like a good place to start. One can't vector the CF if one has rendered the land inhospitable to the blight.
Re: Car wash. No one likes chores. It adds to paralysis. If wood ash proves to work as well on more properties than just my own, (over the next year), then maybe through more enjoyable community building events (Luau, Imu, perhaps festivals...Burning Man/Bread and Puppet) this community could really rally around saving the forest. The annual 800,000 visitors that go to the volcano alone, may enjoy it. There is economy in that. Eco tourism! It's not just for Cornell students. Hawaii Island, turn the adversity into opportunity. The culture needs to be revitalized just like the soil. It's all tied in. Maui has it's film festival, an international destination. We have an active volcano, also an international destination. C'mon gamers.
All ash protocols I've read are conducted annually but in dire times bi-annual treatments seem to be in order. That would mean two festivals a year. Maybe the autumnal and vernal equinox.
Studying the inner workings of the symbiotic systems of the forest is the best bet for finding solutions. Letting the forest do some of the work for us is just good ergonomics. How would the forest deal with this if we were not here?... is the main question. Reverse engineering the tree, seems like a good place to start. One can't vector the CF if one has rendered the land inhospitable to the blight.
Re: Car wash. No one likes chores. It adds to paralysis. If wood ash proves to work as well on more properties than just my own, (over the next year), then maybe through more enjoyable community building events (Luau, Imu, perhaps festivals...Burning Man/Bread and Puppet) this community could really rally around saving the forest. The annual 800,000 visitors that go to the volcano alone, may enjoy it. There is economy in that. Eco tourism! It's not just for Cornell students. Hawaii Island, turn the adversity into opportunity. The culture needs to be revitalized just like the soil. It's all tied in. Maui has it's film festival, an international destination. We have an active volcano, also an international destination. C'mon gamers.
All ash protocols I've read are conducted annually but in dire times bi-annual treatments seem to be in order. That would mean two festivals a year. Maybe the autumnal and vernal equinox.