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.
- National Framework for Managing Sudden Oak Death caused by Phytophthora ramorum in Forests and Wildlands: This framework represents a combined national effort to outline a general plan to manage new finds of Phytophthora ramorum in forests and wildlands.
- 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; and Effects of sudden oak death on fuels and fire behavior
- 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
Forestry Information
- Sudden Oak Death Information for Foresters: On the Best Management Practices page, find the latest guide to how to work in forests without unintentionally moving the pathogen from one area to another.
- 2012 Update for Foresters and Natural Resource Managers: This series of presentations comes from the May 2012 Forestry Workshop in Mendocino County – Part 1; Part 2; Part 3a; Part 3b; Part 3c; Part 3d; Part 4; Part 5
- SOD Update for Foresters & Landowners Part I: Background, Treatment, and Management: A series of presentations from Forestry Workshops in May 2010.
- SOD Update for Foresters & Landowners Part II: Forest Product Regulations and Other Forestry Issues: A series of presentations from Forestry Workshops in May 2010.
- Summary of Fire and P. ramorum issues; and Effects of sudden oak death on fuels and fire behavior
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