Portola Valley & Woodside SOD-BLITZ
FALL RESULTS MEETING 2019
SUDDEN OAK DEATH /PHYTOPHTHORA RAMORUM
7:00 PM on FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 8, 2019
Independence Hall
2955 Woodside Road, Woodside
Speaker: Dr. Matteo Garbelotto
UC Berkeley Forest Pathology and Mycology Lab
www.sodblitz.org
At this meeting, local and statewide results of the 2019
Sudden Oak Death survey, the “SOD Blitz,” will be made
public. The meeting promises to be extremely interesting
with the discovery by volunteers of outbreaks in areas previously
thought to be uninfested. A detailed update on the
status of infestations around the Bay Area will also be given.
On November 7th, the UC Cooperative Extension will host a
workshop from 10 AM – 3 PM at UC Elkus Ranch in Half Moon
Bay on the biology, history, regulations and control
approaches for SOD. This training is aimed at tree care specialists,
government employees, non-governmental agency
employees as well as managers and docents of open spaces
or parks. The workshop will include new information on how
to sample oaks for SOD and how to correctly diagnose SOD,
di_erentiating it from other oak diseases. For more info, contact:
ilacan@ucanr.edu
For more information, contact:
Brandi de Garmeaux, Town of Portola Valley, 851-1700, ext. 222,
bdegarmeaux@portolavalley.net
Kevin Bryant, Town of Woodside, 851-6790,
kbryant@woodsidetown.org
