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Hawaii Game Management Advisory Commission Meeting <br />Minutes — February 13, 2017 <br />JB: Well, that is a hope - growing something in a petri dish in a frig - there's a <br />lot of steps between that and the forest... <br />But what I'm trying to not to be so discouraged and not give discouraging <br />presentations so I'm thinking well, maybe there's a hope that the disease <br />won't be as severe in the cooler forests as it is in these warmer forests <br />down below Pahoa. But there's a lot steps between... <br />NP: The right ecosystems are all connected, right, and if there's a sickening of <br />a forest — a particular species — then that opens the door for other <br />pathogens in the forest, bacteria, fungus... <br />I'm just wondering if there might be a connection in ecosystem with <br />encouraging the growth of a fungus. <br />JB: Yeah, well, there a lot of different weird — we were discussing today about <br />connections between root rots and the Ceratocystis wilts on ohia. <br />Certainly you get these insect outbreaks —cause you get a lot of trees <br />infected with the fungus and then you get insect outbreaks — there are <br />those connections too. <br />NP: For example, there is something affecting the strawberry guava — they are <br />defoliating — maybe not to anyone's notice but all that leafage on the floor <br />in the soil could be heating up the ground with the breakdown of excess <br />leafage, composting, could be encouraging a fungus in some way. <br />JB: Sure, but you'd have to collect the fungus — you'd have to see the dying <br />trees and collect the fungus from 'em. <br />NP: Yeah. I'm just saying, you know, it's a comment — well, who am I speaking <br />to — of course, you know it's really complex. <br />Yeah, I was just curious if any of those things have been considered by <br />anyone? <br />JB: Sure, again, one of the questions that we really are trying to figure out it is <br />this pathogen affecting anything else and moving on anything else and we <br />haven't seen it. I mean, there are times when to get to an ohia tree we <br />felled a half dozen strawberry guava just to get to the base of the tree and <br />we see there's no disease on any of them even though they are related <br />and there are related Ceratocystis disease that infect eucalyptus — I don't <br />think there are any on other guava species — but they do attack eucalyptus <br />in the same family. <br />25 <br />