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MEDIA RELEASE Ohia Love Fest Media Clips, 10-21-18 from Hawaii DLNR on Vimeo. Joining Forces with Land Managers & Scientists in the Battle (Honolulu) – While the complete data is still being analyzed, aerial surveys of Hawai‘i Island, Kaua‘i, and parts of  east Maui earlier this year covered 1,081,000 acres of Ê»ÅhiÊ»a forest being potentially impacted […]

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Rapid ʻŌhiʻa Death, or ROD for short, enters trees through wounds to its bark.

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During a regularly scheduled quarterly aerial assessment of forests on Hawai‘i island in late July, spotters detected more trees “symptomatic” for the presence of C. lukuohia, the fungus more commonly known as Rapid ʻŌhiÊ»a Death. These trees are in the Kalōpā State Recreation Area on the Hamakua Coast and after the helicopter surveys utilizing digital […]

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U.S. Department of the Interior offices and agencies are working in partnership with others on the ‘ŌhiÊ»a Challenge, named after a Hawaiian legend that tells of the love and separation of the young couple ʻŌhiÊ»a and Lehua; Jealous of their love, the goddess Pele turned the warrior ʻŌhiÊ»a into a tree and Lehua into the […]

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The Department of Land and Natural Resources (DLNR) Division of Forestry and Wildlife (DOFAW) announces the release of “Saving ʻŌhiÊ»a, Hawaii’s Sacred Tree,” a new half-hour documentary on Rapid ʻŌhiÊ»a Death, the disease that is killing ʻōhiÊ»a lehua, Hawaii’s most widespread and important native tree.

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The University of Hawai‘i at Hilo was awarded a grant of $197,056 by the National Science Foundation Grants for Rapid Response Research (RAPID) to study the effect of Rapid ‘Ōhi‘a Death (ROD) on animal communities in Hawai‘i. The project, entitled “RAPID: Cascading effects of rapid and widespread mortality of a foundation tree species on animal […]

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Researchers in HawaiÊ»i, working with national and international specialists, have published a paper providing new insight into the origin and development of the tree disease called Rapid ʻŌhiÊ»a Death (ROD). Scientists at the USDA Agricultural Research Service (ARS) and the University of HawaiÊ»i worked with colleagues at the Forestry and Agricultural Biotechnology Institute at the […]

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Researchers have developed a new, more efficient tool for detecting the pathogens believed to be the cause of Rapid `ÅŒhi`a Death (ROD), according to a recently published study by the Hawai`i Cooperative Studies Unit at the University of Hawai`i at Hilo, the USGS Pacific Islands Ecosystem Research Center (PIERC), and USDA Agriculture Research Service (ARS).

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The fungal disease has devastated more than 50,000 acres of native ʻōhiʻa, one of Hawaii’i’s most prized and culturally important forest trees.

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The State of Hawaiʻi applauded the announcement by the U.S. Department of Interior and Senator Brian Schatz of $497,000 in federal funding to help combat Rapid ‘Ōhiʻa Death, the fungal disease that is killing tens of thousands of acres of native forest on Hawaiʻi Island.

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