A workshop offered on May 23 is meant to grow your love of trees — and also to try to protect them.
Hosted by CFAES’s Ohio Woodland Stewards Program, “Trees on Tap!” will highlight the “marvels” of trees, its flier says, and give updates on several new threats to them.
Oak wilt and beech leaf disease
One of those threats is oak wilt, a “serious and often deadly vascular disease,” a CFAES fact sheet says.
Another new threat is beech leaf disease, which affects American beeches, possibly European beeches, but its cause remains a mystery.
Speaking will be experts from CFAES and industry, including:
- Enrico Bonello, CFAES’s Department of Plant Pathology, giving separate sessions on the two diseases, “Oak Wilt in Ohio” and “Beech Leaf Disease.”
- Jim Chatfield of CFAES’s Ohio State University Extension arm and Jason Veil of Secrest Arboretum on CFAES’s Wooster campus, presenting “Acer Mania!” Acer is the genus of maples.
- Stephen Matthews, CFAES’s School of Environment and Natural Resources, speaking on “Climate Change Impacts to Trees and Wildlife.”
- Dan Herms of the Davey Tree Expert Co., covering “Impacts of Invasive Insects: More than Meets the Eye.”
A Q&A session will follow the presentations.
Register by May 17
The event is from 9 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. in Eisenhower Hall, 1760 University Drive, on Ohio State’s Mansfield campus. Registration is $40, includes lunch and materials, and is due by May 17. Space is limited.
Find details and a link to online registration. (Photo: iStock.)