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