Posts Tagged: Humbolt County University of California
Cooperative Extension employees, who coordinate most of the
sudden oak death-related research and monitoring in Northern
California, got a surprise in the spring of 2010, when samples
from a monitoring station near the mouth of Redwood Creek near
Orick in Humboldt County tested positive for the pathogen. This
meant that trees were infected somewhere in the 200,000-acre
watershed – more than 50 miles from the nearest known
infestation, and farther north than the pathogen had ever been
detected in California. Federal and state agencies, including
the USDA Forest Service, CAL FIRE and the Natural Resources
Conservation Service, joined forces with UC Cooperative
Extension and quickly mobilized resources to control the
pathogen in Redwood Valley and halt its spread to neighboring
forests. Local landowners have also played a key role. Yana
Valachovic, UC Cooperative Extension advisor in Humboldt County
and forestry expert, explained that she and her agency partn