Sudden Oak Death

Sudden Oak Death Monitoring Day, May 19, 2012

FREE and OPEN to everyone
more information here

Find out if your trees have SOD. We call it the SOD Blitz (meaning, lots of people out doing the same thing at the same time) and we co-host it with the UC Berkeley Plant Pathology lab. More here. Berkeley lab website here.

I want to know more.

Leave your email address here, we will send you notice about SOD monitoring days, educational meetings, and treatment demonstrations.
Or call the Sonoma County Master Gardeners at 707-565-2608
Or contact Lisa Bell, the Sudden Oak Death Program Coordinator for Sonoma County: 707-565-2050 or lkbell@ucdavis.edu

Sonoma County's Sudden Oak Death Outreach and Education Program is provided by a dedicated group of Sonoma County UC Master Gardeners. They provide educational and technical assistance to landowners. The program's focus is to familiarize residents with Sudden Oak Death biology and disease management options.

Thanks to the USDA Forest Service for funding this program.

A talk by Dr. David Rizzo on Sudden Oak Death, click the arrow above to watch the video. This lecture is an excellent overview of Sudden Oak Death in California. Dave Rizzo's plant pathology lab at UC Davis has been involved in research on Sudden Oak Death since people first noticed tanoaks and oaks dying mysteriously in the SF Bay area in the 1990s. He and his lab played a large role in discovering and naming Phytophthora ramorum, the pathogen that causes the disease, and they continue to research the pathogen. This half-hour talk was presented to a Santa Rosa audience in October, 2007. Produced by Tola Bein.