Koa Stewardship: North and South Kona
North and South Kona, which is the area about which I am reporting this morning, has had several years of excruciating drought, which finally broke about July this summer. The rains have continued into what is normally (although I don't think there is a normal anymore) dry fall season. The impact of the prolonged dry weather prior to the last few months on the forests of Kona has not been good. At the very least, growth and regrowth has been fairly static. Add the vog that has saturated Kona since 1983, creating acid rain and acid fog in the upper elevations, and you find that our forest areas are suffering from natural causes.
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Author(s): Sally Rice
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Koa: A Decade of Growth
1996 - Honolulu Hawai’i