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Project tracks tiny germ that's killing mighty oaksPeter Fimrite
Published 4:00 am, Thursday, June 21, 2012
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Matteo Garbelotto, with a 300-year-old Coastal Oak being killed by sudden oak death disease, at
the Fairfield Osborn Preserve, a nature reserve run by Sonoma Sate University, East of Rohnert
Park, Ca., in Sonoma County, on Tuesday June 19, 2012. Garbelotto is the creator of the SODMAP,
a comprehensive map ever put together of sudden oak infections in the Bay Area. Every
documented test by researchers at UC Berkeley and UC Davis, Calfire and the California
Department of Food and Agriculture is plotted on SODMAP. Photo: Michael Macor, The Chronicle
The most comprehensive map ever put together
detailing the spread of the pathogen known as
sudden oak death shows the tree-killing microbe
moving down from the forested hills into residential
areas all over the Bay Area.
The new map, called SODMAP, was inspired by the
volunteer mapping programs by UC Berkeley's
Forest Pathology and Mycology Laboratory and is
designed to help cities and counties plan projects and allow citizens to protect historic
heritage trees.
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It plots the results of every test recorded by researchers at UC Berkeley and UC Davis, the
California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection, the Department of Food and
Agriculture, and thousands of citizen volunteers.
"No other forest disease has such a complete distribution map," said Matteo Garbelotto, a
UC Berkeley forest pathologist who runs the lab and helped create the map. "Sudden oak
death, as an infectious disease, just moves through the landscape, so sharing information is
really essential to understand how the disease is distributed."
The Google Earth map is being released Thursday in coordination with an international
symposium on sudden oak death being held in Petaluma. It is the latest effort to involve
residents in the battle against the mysterious pathogen, which has killed hundreds of
thousands of oak trees from Big Sur to southern Oregon.
The plan is to update the map every year and track the movement of the disease through
neighborhoods and counties. The idea is for residents and city and county officials to look at
the map and determine where diseased trees are located so they can protect healthy ones
and, perhaps, delay landscaping and other microbe-stirring work until the dry season.
Sudden oak death has proved to be most virulent during rainy months. Trees within a
kilometer, or about six-tenths of a mile, of a diseased tree are considered to be at high risk
of becoming infected, particularly during wet winters.
"Let's say your property is 1 mile from a tree that is infected. That would mean you don't
have to worry now," Garbelotto said.
"Oaks are usually infected only when bay trees or tan oaks are really close, so basically if
the front of the disease is more than 0.6 miles away it is impossible for your oak to become
infected. Your property could nevertheless be within 0.6 miles next year or maybe in 10
years. This map allows people to decide in real time whether they need to take action."
Discovered in 1995
Sudden oak death, discovered in Mill Valley in 1995, exists in forests and wildlands in 14
California counties and in Curry County, Ore. It kills big oak trees and the smaller,
understory tan oaks, which have been nearly wiped out in portions of Big Sur, Jack London
State Park in Sonoma County, China Camp State Park in Marin County and the Marin
Municipal Water District watershed lands near Mount Tamalpais.
The disease, known scientifically as Phytophthora ramorum, has 107 susceptible host
plants. Infected California bay laurels are the most effective spreaders of the deadly
microbe, but such common garden ornamentals as camellias and rhododendrons can also
spread the tree-strangling pathogen to oaks.
Arborists and ecologists are afraid sudden oak death could eventually denude California's
golden hills of its signature tree. As it is, experts predict as many as 90 percent of
California's live oaks and black oaks could die from the disease within 25 years.
Spreads via water
The pathogen is known to spread in water and has been detected in numerous waterways,
including the Crystal Springs Reservoir. Heavy rains in 2010 and 2011 are believed to
have caused a spike in infections.
New infestations were found last year in urban and suburban areas of Napa, Berkeley and
other locations in southern Alameda County. The largest new infestation was along South
Skyline Boulevard, west of Saratoga and Los Gatos, where 97 percent of the specimens
that were collected tested positive for the pathogen.
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