The coast live oak shown above was severely diseased with two large stem canker infections when I first arrived two years ago. Without promises of recover, I suggested two surgical procedures, as well as fire mimicry treatments to this and several non-diseased neighboring oaks. Below are the two surgical wounds depicting two years of healing. Note there is no residual bleeding or other signs of stem canker infection. Remaining photo sets below show the responses of the neighboring oaks to fire mimicry treatments. Happy to report that we’ll be returning soon to treat these oaks again.
Sudden Oak Life by Lee Klinger 
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