The free events take place from March 31 to May 19 and require one-hour trainings. For locations and local details, go to www.sodblitz.org.
Attendees should bring mobile devices or GPS units if they have them.
Humans weren’t the only ones who suffered — and continue to suffer – thanks to California’s recent drought.
Take those glorious live oaks in places near Topanga State Park where mountainous open space separates Calabasas and Pacific Palisades.
Typical signs of infection show up on the tips of these California bay laurel leaves. (Photo by Martha Proctor)
In 2016 we had to have seven stately 100-year-old coastal live oak trees on our property in Inverness cut down due to sudden oak death (SOD). This sad fact fits into the data from SOD Blitz, a project of the Univerity of California at Berkeley forest pathology and mycology laboratory - that SOD has killed hundreds of thousands of coastal live oak and tanoak trees in Marin and other coastal communities in California and Oregon. In fact, in the past year, the largest sampling of affected trees by SOD Blitz volunteers showed that the incidence of SOD statewide is three times higher than it was two years ago. In Marin, the overall infection rate in 2017 was estimated to be just above 21 percent, an increase of 5 percent from 2016.
http://www.marinij.com/lifestyle/20180413/how-to-get-involved-in-the-annual-sudden-oak-death-survey
