Sudden oak death resurgent in Bay Area amid wetter weather The remnants of diseased oak trees lie on a slope of Mount Tamalpais near Fairfax on Oct. 24, 2001. (Jeff Vendsel/Marin Independent Journal) ...

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Overall cases of sudden oak death, the scourge of California woodlands for a quarter-century, were cut in half this year by the ongoing two-year drought. The latest annual survey by volunteers ...

Sudden oak death, rampant in California, is spreading to the north, leaving the Forest Service with a tough option: Send them up in smoke.

Sudden oak death made unexpected gains this year in California, including in northern Sonoma County, surprising experts who expected the state’s dry weather would have curbed the infection that ...

Sudden oak death was first detected in Sonoma County at Fairfield Osborn Preserve on Sonoma Mountain in the early 2000s, said Kerry Wininger, UC Coop Extension staffer in Santa Rosa.

Sudden oak death, which has killed millions of trees in California over the past 20 years, is spreading more slowly, according to California's most recent citizen-science sudden oak death survey. The ...

The disease was thought to have spread into San Luis Obispo County in 2016, and it has flourished in Big Sur and other areas of Monterey County for several years. Sudden oak death - or SOD as it’s ...

Sudden oak death rampant in Sonoma County after two wet winters, raising longterm fire risks Drought was likely the biggest contributing factor in generating parched fuel for last month’s wildfires.

The sudden oak death infection rate in Marin has doubled to more than 21 percent since 2015, according to an ecologist with the University of California, Berkeley. “It’s a big change ...