Comments on: Could hybrid ecosystems save native forests in Hawaiʻi?

By: Raymond Sled

Raymond Sled — Wed, 10 Dec 2014 21:25:47 +0000

I like your idea and think that many of the Islands could use your concept. In some areas where lack of water is a problem you might think about using treated wastewater from the treatment plants. The Wastwater plants would not have to put the R1 water down injection wells that can enter the ocean. The second benifit would be that the trees could use the nutrients from the water and filter them out before they would enter the ground water. There would have selective sites near the treatment plants so that the cost would not be so expensive and Maui might be a good place to start.

By: �鶹��ýNews staff

�鶹��ýNews staff — Tue, 26 Nov 2013 20:30:28 +0000

In reply to Pollyann Nakila. Thanks for your interest. You can contact the Rebecca Ostertag, a biology professor at the University of Hawaiʻi at Hilo, for more information on this project. If you click on her name in the story above you'll get her �鶹��ýHilo website with her contact information.

By: Pollyann Nakila

Pollyann Nakila — Mon, 25 Nov 2013 07:53:43 +0000

I read your article on how can we save the ecosystems in Hawaii. I’ve always been interested in the native plants but never had the opportunity to learn. Most of my grandparents passed on when I was at a young age. They were the ones that had the knowledge about the native plants and the purposes of the medicinal aspects of them. Do you think that I would be able to help with your folks research providing it is at an available time that I will be able to attend. I’m an undergraduate Uhh student and maybe graduating soon. An interested student.