Helping Report Beech Leaf Disease in our County

[Annette Pasek]

HAS Members, 

One more way to help our forests.

*Thank you to member Sandi Jones for noting this recent post on CTbirds.

A forest pathologist contact with the Connecticut Agricultural Experiment Station has requested the assistance of the CT birding community in locating the presence of Beech Leaf Disease (BLD) in the following

counties: Litchfield, Hartford, Tolland, Windham. Unfortunately this disease is already widespread in our four southern counties, so please limit reports to the four northern counties only as mentioned above.

Reports should be submitted to Dr. Robert Marra via email, Robert...@ct.gov. BLD is rapidly expanding and is fatal over successive years of infection.

 

Additional information on BLD, including specifics on what to look for, is provided in the links below to documents provided by Dr. Marra.  If the links aren't working for you (fingers crossed), Google can get you up to speed on this easily identified disease. If needed, contact me privately and I can send you the documents as attachments off list. Thank you for your assistance and permitting the somewhat off topic post.

 

Larry Havey

Bethel, CT

 

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1DjXSNNuYgWNEsNDbExbnXd1-wm2fqRGf/view?usp

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https://drive.google.com/file/d/1Sr-FeL1qxetxtFaOaBt8uOJeZRj-FVjK/view?usp

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https://drive.google.com/file/d/1UBWjkYJwzle-KhhERn4Jay8EyB9S2Y6a/view?usp

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It’s official Summer Solstice has occurred, Sunday June 20th!

Annette Pasek

President, Hartford Audubon Society 

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