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Jonathan
We are all learning what we can very quickly about Ash Die
Back (ADB) in the hope that we can take steps to help make the outbreak of th einfection less damaging
than Dutch Elm Disease (DED). However,
amongst a huge amount of information being posted on UK Tree Care (http://www.tree-care.info/uktc)
a very pertinent recent comment from Roderick Leslie is that history may not
help: there is no read across between infections, each is different and so each
will present different learning opportunities to the tree manager.
Can ADB be contained/eradicated? The answer at the moment is unclear; I first
heard about it one evening in the summer when walking along the canal, a pocket
park had been re-stocked with ash trees that the nursery re-called, others will
have seen the symptoms earlier, I believe I have read of outbreaks reported from
2009 when the infection went without a name.