News
Oak disease variant looms as new
threat:
Third strain may be offspring of U.S., European types
- Peter Fimrite, Chronicle Staff Writer
Saturday, January 22, 2005
The US House of Representatives unanimously passed the “National Plan for the Control and Management of Sudden Oak Death” (H.R.4569 Burns, GA) on 10/5/04. The legislation does not appropriate funds for disease management, but it does authorize the USDA to identify all possible host plants for P. ramorum; determine the national scope of the pathogen; research past and current control, quarantine, and hazardous fuel reduction methods; and identify a national plan with cost estimates for disease eradication. The Bill will be heard in the Senate when they are back in session.
WSDA puts emergency quarantine on California nursery stock
Press release 4/6/04
USDA ANNOUNCES OAK DISEASE DETECTION PROGRAM FOR CALIFORNIA NURSERIES
Press release 3/26/04
Oak Disease Threatens Profits of State's Nurseries
Wholesalers could lose $100 million in sales because of bans on California
plants. They say states are overreacting.
LA Times 3/23/04
Serious threat to forests, city trees, gardens
Georgia Agriculture Dept.
Quarantines All Nursery Plants from California
Press release 3/15/04
WSDA issues emergency rule to protect nursery industry
Press release 3/10/04
Nursery reports oak disease
Infested plants have been sold out of state -- scientists shocked
San Francisco Chronicle, Thursday, March 11, 2004
For more information please contact
Dr. Gary Chastagner
WSU Puyallup Research and Extension Center
7612 Pioneer Way E.
Puyallup,
WA 98371-4998
Phone: 253-445-4528
E-mail: chastag@wsu.edu
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