Environmental

Interior Department and Senator Brian Schatz Announce Additional Federal Support to Combat Rapid ‘Ōhiʻa Death

Federal Assistance will pioneer adaptive treatments to contain fatal pathogen that threatens Hawai‘i’s ecosystem, water supply and economic vitality

A lagoon of blue water is surrounded by a black rocky shoreline and deep green forests.

WASHINGTON –(ENEWSPF)–August 29, 2016.   In response to a request from Senator Brian Schatz (D-HI), the U.S. Department of the Interior announced today $497,000 in additional federal funding to combat a tree-killing fungus that causes Rapid ‘Ōhiʻa Death (ROD), a disease that threatens the State’s tropical forests and delicate ecosystems which could jeopardize local water supplies…

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