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Date: Sun, 12 Mar 2017 18:19:35 -0300
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&gt; closer to us.  But with 
tell us more...I only know the beech bark cancre involving a scale
insect and a fungus. And a legend that Queen Victoria bestowed it us.
Nick

On Sun, Mar 12, 2017 at 6:00 PM, pce <pce@accesswave.ca> wrote:
> 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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