November 18th Seattle IPM Webinar “Growing on: Managing Healthy Urban Landscapes”

Sooty Bark Disease is a new plant disease in the Seattle area. This fungus is infecting several types of maple trees and has the potential to cause illness in humans. This talk will show you how to identify signs of Sooty Bark Disease, explain how the infection progresses and spreads in trees, and how to work safely around this organism. It will also discuss why we are now seeing this disease pop up in our area.