Walnuts and Dry Woods

Friday Sept 9, out to the Woods with Barbara F, OK State Survey coordinator and USDA to look for walnut thousand canker Geosmithia and walk the Woods. Found largish walnut tree at top of pipeline trail dead looking .. won't know for sure until spring. Barbara sampled other walnut green branches along the Trans OWP trail. We talked about setting some other monitoring traps and using the Lindgren traps. Found Ana T working on tree plots by SW quarter. Trees in the SW quarter (NW end of dune) are showing significant mortality and leaf drop. Hard time for many of the trees in the Woods. The natural world here is holding its breath, waiting for rain.