Bainbridge Island Blakely Harbor Die-Off Markedly Worse

In September, Darrell Howe reported some isolated sword fern die-off at one spot on Bainbridge Island, on the trail between Fort Ward and Blakely Harbor Parks - see map below.

This week Darrell reports:

I had a chance to return to Bainbridge and walk back into the sickly fern site I noticed in September.   I will attach a few new photos.   I was way too conservative in my estimate of impacted area earlier in the fall.   I would now guess the total site may be more like 7,500 sf.    I did not see any other signs anywhere else on the Island for now.

Photos below the map.