Current status of beech bark disease in New England and New York

Margaret Miller-Weeks

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Current status of beech bark disease in New England and New York

Informally Refereed

Authors:

Margaret Miller-Weeks

Year:

1983

Type:

Proceedings - Paper

Station:

Northern Research Station

Source:

In: Proceedings, I.U.F.R.O. Beech Bark Disease Working Party Conference; 1982 September 26-October 8; Hamden, CT. Sponsored by the USDA Forest Service, Northeastern Forest Experiment Station. Gen. Tech. Rep. WO-37. [Washington, DC]: U.S. Department of Agriculture, Forest Service: 21-23.

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Abstract

The advancing front of beech bark disease in the northeast is now located in western New York and Pennsylvania. The disease is killing trees as far west as central New York. Cryptococcus fagisuga scale was found on nearly every tree examined during a northern New England disease survey. From that survey and Resource Evaluation plot data, beech mortality is estimated as high as 50 percent in Maine and about 30 percent in New Hampshire and Vermont.

Parent Publication

Proceedings, I.U.F.R.O. Beech Bark Disease Working Party Conference

Citation

Miller-Weeks, Margaret. 1983. Current status of beech bark disease in New England and New York. In: Proceedings, I.U.F.R.O. Beech Bark Disease Working Party Conference; 1982 September 26-October 8; Hamden, CT. Sponsored by the USDA Forest Service, Northeastern Forest Experiment Station. Gen. Tech. Rep. WO-37. [Washington, DC]: U.S. Department of Agriculture, Forest Service: 21-23.