- Editor: Sophie Kolding
- Author: Yana Valachovic
- Author: Pamela Kan-Rice
Published on: May 16, 2012
University of California Cooperative Extension employees, who coordinate most of the sudden oak death-related research and monitoring in Northern California, got a surprise in the spring of 2010, when samples from a monitoring station near the mouth of Redwood Creek near Orick in Humboldt County tested positive for the pathogen. This meant that trees were infected somewhere in the 200,000-acre watershed – more than 50 miles from the nearest known infestation, and farther north than the pathogen had ever been detected in California.
Federal and state agencies, including the USDA Forest Service, CAL FIRE and the Natural Resources Conservation Service, joined forces with UC Cooperative Extension and...
Tags: CAL FIRE (1), Humbolt County (1), Natural Resources Conservation Service (1), Sudden Oak Death (4), University of California Cooperative Extension (1)
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