A Landscape Lost

A pathogen threatens the nation's forest ecosystems.

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October 7, 2002, 11:00 AM PDT

By Abhijeet Chavan @http://twitter.com/legalaidtech

The forests and woodlands of America conceal a landscape of loss. The great elms and chestnuts are missing, lost in blights of the past. Hemlocks in the Northeast are under threat from the woolly adelgid, and environmental pressures are affecting other species as well. But the most volatile and in some ways most frightening scourge of trees at the moment is Sudden Oak Death, which has killed tens of thousands of oaks in coastal California in just a few years.

Thanks to Abhijeet Chavan

FULL STORY: The Dying Oaks of California

Monday, October 7, 2002 in The New York Times

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