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• Researchers find new strain of Sudden Oak Death in East Bay. KPIX CBS News Bay Area. 1/30/25. YouTube Link

• A new form of sudden oak death takes root in San Mateo County. The Almanac. 1/10/25. Original Article – Archived Article

• Sudden Oak Death Is On the Rise Again in Sonoma County. Sonoma Valley Sun. 12/5/24. Original Article – Archived Article

• Sudden oak death resurgent in Marin amid wetter weather. Marin Independent Journal. 12/5/24. Original Article – Archived Article

• New strains of sudden oak death threaten Bay Area trees. KTVU Fox2. 12/3/24. Original Article – Archived Article – Original Video

• Sudden oak death resurgent in Bay Area amid wetter weather. The Mercury News. 12/3/24. Original Article – Archived Article

• New strains of sudden oak death threaten Bay Area trees. AOL.com. 12/3/24. Original Article – Archived Article

• Potent tree-killing disease reemerges in the Bay Area. San Francisco Chronicle. 11/18/24. Original Article – Archived Article

• Campus scientists find new form of sudden oak death pathogen. The Daily Californian. 11/14/24. Original Article – Archived Article

• Citizen scientists discover new, more virulent form of sudden oak death in Bay Area. UC Berkeley News. 11/12/24. Original Article – Archived Article

• Perché lasciare marcire gli alberi morti in una foresta potrebbe aiutare a creare nuova vita. National Geographic Italia. 11/6/24. Original Article – Archived Article

• La salute delle piante nell’intervista a Matteo Garbelotto. Coltivato. 5/12/24. Original Article – Archived Article IT – Archived Article EN

• Elevating regional significance and growing regional research communities. Springer Nature – The Source. 6/28/24. Original Article – Archived Article

• Don’t cut them down: Letting dead trees rot can help make new life. National Geographic. 5/31/24. Original Article – Archived Article

• Sudden Oak Death lying low in Napa County. Napa Valley Register. 11/17/23. Original Article – Archived Article

• Tracking & Subduing the Plague of California’s Oak Woodland. JGI Joint Genome Institute. 10/17/23. Original Article – Archived Article

• La straordinaria, unica, inimitabile voce delle foreste, raccontata da Matteo Garbelotto (Director U.C. Berkeley Forest Pathology and Mycology Laboratory). Il Foglio Agrifoglio. 5/25/23. Original Article – Archived Article

• New campus study on fungi could lead to improvements in agriculture. The Daily Californian. 2/24/23. Original Article – Archived Article

• The nearly unkillable Eucalyptus meets its match. Bay Nature. 10/20/22. Original Article – Archived Article

• Nuevas setas descritas por primera vez en la isla de Moorea. Deporticos. 4/5/22. Original Article – Archived Article

• Polluters are using forests as ‘carbon offsets.’ Climate change has other plans. National Geographic. 4/4/22. Original Article – Archived Article

• Polynesian Island yields treasure trove of fungal biodiversity. 4/4/22. Indian Agriculture News. Original Article – Archived Article

• This South Pacific island could help us understand how fungi evolve. Popular Science. 4/2/22. Original Article – Archived Article

• Ilha polinésia preserva verdadeiro tesouro da biodiversidade fúngica. Olhar Digital. 4/1/22. Original Article – Archived Article

• Polynesian Island yields ‘treasure trove’ of fungal biodiversity. Science Daily. 3/31/22. Original Article – Archived Article

• Polynesian Island yields ‘treasure trove’ of fungal biodiversity. Berkeley News. 3/31/22. Original Article – Archived Article

• Bill Pramuk, Trees and People: The Sudden Oak Death Blitz. Napa Valley Register. 3/25/22. Original Article – Archived Article

• Invasioni biologiche e cambaimenti climatici, ecco le risposte. Stradenuove. 2/1/22. Original Article – Archived Article

• Sudden Oak Death and the Coast Live Oaks of Garber Park. Perennial. 1/16/22. Original Article – Archived Article

• California’s massive Dixie Fire ignited after tree fell on PG&E electrical lines, officials say. NBC News. 1/4/22. Original Article – Archived Article

• Marin sudden oak death infections decline amid drought. Marin Independent Journal. 12/20/21. Original Article – Archived Article

• Berkeley holiday tree disposal features composting this winter season. The Daily Californian. 11/30/21. Original Article – Archived Article

• Drought curbs spread of sudden oak death in California. The Press Democrat. 11/29/21. Original Article – Archived Article

• Sierra Club, San Francisco Bay. How Human Impacts Are Amplifying California Tree Diseases. 11/12/21. Link

• UC Berkeley students clean eucalyptus debris to prepare for fire season. Daily Californian. 10/21/21. Original Article – Archived Article

• Thirty years after the Tunnel Fire: In many ways, Oakland Hills are more vulnerable today. SFBay. 10/21/21. Original Article – Archived Article

• Dixie Fire Tied to Rotted Tree. NBC Bay Area. 9/7/21. Original Link – Archived Article

• A plant expert on how he is reaching the public and policy makers with his research.
  Springer Nature Blog. 8/22/2021. Original Article – Archived Article

• Dolomiti: paesaggio in trasformazione (Dolomites: landscape in transformation). fassa.com. 7/22/21 – Link – Archived Article

• Shocking scene as a major tree die-off hits East Bay parks. SFGate. 7/21/2021. Original Article – Archived Article

• New study reveals trees dying off across the East Bay. KCBS Radio. 6/21/2021. Original Article – Archived Recording

• The Diseased Rhododendrons That Triggered a Federal Plant Hunt. The New Republic. 4/26/2021. Original Article – Archived Article

• A Threat to Ecological Investments: Plant Pathogens in Landscape Restoration Projects. The Cross-Pollinator. 3/2021. Original Article – Archived Article

• Soil borne pathogen invasions linked to ecological restorations. 3/19/2021. Original Article – Archived Article

• Disease Outbreak Appears to be Killing Bay Area Trees. Bay Nature. 3/4/2021. Original Article – Archived Article

• SOD – Regulations Should Reflect Disease’s Complexity. Invasive Species. 12/8/2020. Original Article – Archived Article

• Phytophthora ramorum – a deadly forest pathogen, surviving and spreading as three strains in North America. BSPP-Plant Pathology Highlight. 11/27/2020. Original Article – Archived Article

• Extent of sudden oak death spread in California unexpected in dry year. Press Democrat. 11/15/2020. Original Article – Archived Article

• “Tree Time” al MUSE di Trento. Il racconto della mostra. Exibart. 10/30/2020. Original Article – Archived Article

• The Muse, science museum of Trento, celebrates trees and the alliance between art and nature. Inexhibit.com 10/28/2020. Original Article – Archived Article – Exhibit Catalog

• Could A Phone App Help Prevent California Wildfires? CapRadio. 8/10/2020. Original Article – Archived Article

• UC Berkeley researchers find forests are becoming younger, smaller. Daily Californian. 6/11/2020. Original Article – Archived Article

• Dog sleuths sniff out crop disease hitting US citrus trees. Press Democrat. 2/4/2020. Original Article – Archived Article

• Volunteers needed to stop SOD from killing oak trees. UCANR News & Events. 3/9/2020. Original Article – Archived Article

• Call for citizen scientists for 2020 Sudden Oak Death Blitzes. Berkeley Rausser CNR News. 3/10/20. Original Article – Archived Article

• The flood of sudden oak death has killed 50 million trees (橡树猝死病毒泛滥 已造成5千万棵死亡). Epoch Times (China). 12/7/2019. Original Article – Translated Archived Article

• Sudden oak death spreading fast, California’s coastal forests facing devastation. San Francisco Chronicle. 11/7/2019. Original Article – Archived Article

• Sudden oak death rebounds in Sonoma County, spreads in California. Press Democrat. 11/8/2019. Original Article – Archived Article

• Citizen science making a difference for California. The Daily Californian. 10/4/2019. Original Article – Archived Article

• UC researchers discover cost-saving response to pathogens in restoration sites. UC Delivers. Fall 2109. Original Article – Archived Article

• Matteo Garbelotto – Leading the citizen science contagion. Breakthroughs. Spring 2109. Original Article – Archived Article

• UC Berkeley researchers detect deadly plant pathogen in Del Norte County. The Daily Californian. 9/25/2109. Original Article – Archived Article

• First known cases of sudden oak death detected in Del Norte County. Berkeley News. 9/24/2019. Original Article – Archived Article

• A Quarantine in the Forest, Sierra. 9/21/2019. Original Article – Archived Article

• US Troops Accidentally Brought a Deadly Tree Pathogen to Italian Soil During WWII , Constant Wonder, 8/12/2019 Link

• Remote Island’s Biodiversity and Ecosystem, Constant Wonder, 6/17/2019, Link

• The End Is Near for One of Sweden’s Oldest Trees, Atlas Obscura, 5/7/2019. Original Article – Archived Article

• Is habitat restoration actually killing plants in the California wildlands? Berkeley News, 1/2/2019, Press Release– Archived Article

• Sudden Oak Death –SOD- Blitzes: monitor SOD spread in a rainy year, test oaks for SOD thanks to OakSTeP, and help create a database of effective SOD treatments. Berkeley News, 2/11/2019, Press Release

• Invisible Killers Hitchhike on Native Plant Seedlings. Scientific American, 1/4/2019, Original Article – Archived Article – Podcast Download

• Dry conditions keep sudden oak death in check, yet significant outbreaks continue in some areas. Lake County News, 10/20/2018, Original Article – Archived Article

• Bill Pramuk Trees and People: Sudden Oak Death results for 2018. Napa Valley Register, 10/19/2018, Original Article – Archived Article

• Sudden oak death diminishes after dry winter, but infection remains rampant. Petaluma Argus Courier, 10/16/2018, Original Article – Archived Article

• Dry winter curtails fatal disease in oak trees. The Press Democrat, 10/15/2018, Original Article – Archived Article

• New outbreaks of sudden oak death in Marin despite drier weather. Marin Independent Journal, 10/12/2018, Original Article – Archived Article

• Dry conditions slow — but don’t stop — SOD’s spread. Western FarmPress, 10/10/2018.  Original Article – Archived Article

• Dry conditions keep sudden oak death in check, yet significant outbreaks continue. ucanr.edu, 10/9/2018.  Original Article – Archived Article

• Plant Plague: Sudden oak death, KQED Science Quest: Original Article and Video 

• I saved my trees from sudden oak death; you can, too, Marin Independent Journal, 4/27/18, Original Article – Archived Article

• Biscogniauxia canker found on Valley oaks in Southern California, 12/2017, PDF

• Sudden Oak Death Blitz 2017 results are in, Napa Valley Register, 12/15/17, Original Article – Archived Article

• Sudden oak death rampant in Sonoma County after two wet winters, raising longterm fire risks, The Press Democrat, 11/29/17, Original Article – Archived Article

• Sudden oak death on rise, including at Bear Valley, Point Reyes Light, 11/9/17, Original Article – Archived Article

• Marin sudden oak death infections surge, Marin Independent Journal, 10/28/17, Original Article – Archived Article

• Increase in sudden oak death may have helped fuel deadly North Bay fires, ABC7 News, 10/21/17, Link

• Northern California Wildfires Likely Exacerbated By Sudden Oak Death, Governing, 10/20/17, Original Article – Archived Article

• Sudden oak death likely exacerbated deadly Northern California wildfires, SFGate, 10/20/17, Original Article – Archived Article

• Sudden Oak Death in California Fueled Wildfires, Newsmax, 11/9/17, Original Article – Archived Article

• Wet winter causes Central Coast sudden oak death cases to skyrocket, KCBX, 10/23/17, Original Article – Archived Article

• Sudden Oak Death moves into urban locales in East Bay and on Peninsula, The Mercury News, 10/22/17 Original Article – Archived Article