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P. ramorum in Wildlands

Below are resources useful when addressing or managing P. ramorum or Sudden Oak Death in forests and wildlands. For specific Forestry Information, click here.

  • Management Guidelines: Preventing spread in infected areas.
  • Protecting Trees from Sudden Oak Death Before Infection: This publication provides helpful treatment information for areas not currently infested but at risk.
  • Best Management Practices: Best Management Practices for a number of activities and user groups on wildlands and in urban-interface zones.
  • Guidelines for Arborists: This guide provides an overview of management and safety considerations for arborists working with Sudden Oak Death.
  • Arborist & Applicator Lists: This page on the website provides a list of tree care professionals who have been through a COMTF training session on symptom recognition/sampling and the use of the Agri-fos/Pentra-bark treatment.
  • Survey Methods: General guidelines for conducting a survey to detect, delineate, or characterize Sudden Oak Death.
  • Sampling: This links to a page on this website with information about how to prepare a sample to test for Phytophthora ramorum.
  • Treatments: This links to a page on this website that provides preventive measures that may protect plants.
  • Summary of Fire and P. ramorum issues
  • Sanitation: This links to a page on this website with sanitation measures to reduce the risk of spreading the pathogen.
  • Spanish Fact Sheet: Basic facts about Sudden Oak Death written in Spanish.
  • Restoration of Oak Woodlands: A guide to what should be planted to replace a tree that was killed by P. ramorum.
  • Oak Woodland Management: Information about the University of California’s Integrated Hardwood Range Management Program.
  • A Field Guide to Insects and Diseases of California Oaks: Order a  free hard copy:
    By e-mail     – Send your request, including full mailing address in block format (as if you are addressing an envelope) to: rschneider@fs.fed.us Fax: (970) 498-1122; Phone: (970) 498-1392.  By mail - Send your name and address in block format to: Rocky Mountain Research Station, 240 West Prospect Road, Fort Collins, CO 80526-2098 USA

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