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departments, click here Ash tree crisis as deadly fungus
threatens North woodlands CONFIRMATION that a disease which
kills ash trees has spread to the North-East and North Yorkshire
has prompted fears for the future of the region's woodlands. Joe
Willis reports. DEADLY ash tree fungus dieback has been
discovered at nine sites in the region, raising fears that
millions of trees are at risk and historic landscapes could be
changed forever. The Forestry Commission today revealed that the
Chalara fraxinea fungus had been found in woodland near
Guisborough, at a site east of York, in North Yorkshire, and at
a third location near Wooler, in Northumberland. Further cases
have been found in recently-planted saplings near Sedgefield and
close to Seaham, both in County Durham, as well as sites near
Richmond, between Bedale and Thirsk and near Tadcaster, in North
Yorkshire. The disease has also been confirmed in saplings near
Newcastle International Airport. Def