The next potential threat facing Niagara County’s trees could make the jump from across the border. Trees in Canada’s Niagara Region have been infected with oak wilt, a fungal disease that means ...

As property owners and state foresters across Northeast Michigan continue to remove damaged or downed trees this summer from ...

TALLMADGE TOWNSHIP, Mich. (WOOD) — Arborists from the Grand Rapids Parks and Recreation Department will start treatment on a group of oak trees in Aman Park infected with oak wilt. Arborists ...

Trees suspected to have died recently from oak wilt should be destroyed by burning, burying or chipping. The heat of a fire destroys the fungus, and the smoke emitted poses no threat to healthy trees.

Oak wilt is caused by the fungus Bretziella fagacearum. Once a tree is infected, the fungus may fruit, creating gray to black fungal pads under the tree’s bark.

Research in Minnesota found that oak wilt disease can be treated in white oaks by pruning dead wood, breaking apart root grafts, and injecting white oaks every two years with the fungicide ...

Oak wilt infections have been confirmed in two stands of trees in southwest Marquette County, signaling additional spread of the often-fatal oak tree fungus in Michigan's Upper Peninsula.

They also are putting out insect traps in forests with oak wilt to see what kinds of bugs might be carrying the fungus. Results of these studies will go into the 2024 Forest Health report.

Both oak wilt and drought block water transportation to leaves through the tree’s xylem. However, oak wilt affected the conduits only in localized regions where the fungus was present.

Oak wilt's impact on the ecosystem and the area's landscape would be profound, making prevention and early detection crucial.

Oak wilt is one of the deadliest tree diseases in the U.S., responsible for killing millions of trees across 76 counties in Texas, according to the forest service.

Oak wilt is one of the deadliest tree diseases in the U.S., responsible for killing millions of trees across 76 counties in Texas, according to the forest service.