A Race to Save a Signature American Tree from a Deadly Disease (nytimes.com)

Emerald ash borer got all the ash trees on my wooded property a few years ago. Pretty amazing to watch that happen in real time.

Good grief, another one?

They (the European version at least) also have a symbiotic relationship with Trumpet of the Dead. There's an ancient forest near me with beach trees and you find the black trumpets in areas where there's several very old and giant beach trees in proximity.

I've also recently learned about Sudden Oak Death, a fungus which is ravaging forests in California and Oregon. Evidently it is unknown where it came from.

Seems like there is a disease for pretty much every American tree, before long all we'll have is maples and random non-natives.