The fungus has survived and is steadily infecting trees at the application sites.  Hawaii Dept. of Agriculture will apply the fungus at all suitable sites when more of the fungus is cultured. HDOA is short on staff at this time, so additional fungus treatment will not be right away.
 

2. IMPLEMENTATION OF EVALUATION AND MONITORING ACTIVITIES.

Activities & Timelines:

1) Monitor the progress of treatment of new and remote populations.  Unit of measure is acres monitored.

Since work at the new site 93-Hale Puaa just began, no new population monitoring activity occurred there during this quarter.  No remote site work was monitored during this quarter.

2) Monitor the progress of treatments of old populations, with emphasis on quantifying depletion of soils seedbank following repeated treatments.  Unit of measure is acres monitored.

Monitoring activities at old populations produced some mature trees, and many seedlings.  Numbers of seedlings are minimal at smaller sites, but at sites where many mature trees once existed, there are still hundreds of new plants emerging.

Table 8.  Monitor the progress of treatment at old populations.

 
 
 

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