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Beech? It would be nice to see them back in our forests, but an introduced insect pest, the "Beech Leaf-mining Weevil" (Orchestes fagi) has killed off all the beeches here in Waverley. Some sort of biological control would be needed for this, presumably. Peter Payzant > On Mar 12, 2017, at 16:06, Nick Hill <fernhillns@gmail.com> wrote: > > There are things one can do. Donna has worked w getting clean genotypes of american beech that are not cancred with the beech bark disease. Now we need to make a conservation case for beech forests and start a program like the Garry Oak on the west coast. Some say we drop the beech from consideration as a potential old growth due to the disease but increasingly I am seeing clean beech in the Valley...
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