Beech blight

[chas0218]

Anyone else have any cases on their property? I have a case of it on my older trees but the younger ones don't seem to be effected by it. It's too bad but now I have to catch them before they rot and become useless. At least I have some firewood for the upcoming seasons. The beech was one of the larger amounts of hardwood on the property. Thank goodness I have white and red oaks littering the property. I think I will use this opportunity to add my food plots to those areas most effected.

[chas0218]

Here is a photo of what it looks like on my property this is in 8w.

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[TACC]

I have never seen that before

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[chas0218]

14 minutes ago, TACC said:

I have never seen that before

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It looks like the neighbors property has it too. Back at my parents place in 8F I have never saw it either. I just stumbled across a post on another forum about it and it had me looking for it and found out I have a lot of it. I hope I can catch the trees that have it early so I can at least use them for firewood. Not sure if I can mill them for lumber/wood working with the blight but will be looking into it. I have a lot of newer growth (4"-10") across and it doesn't seem tot be affected. I feel like it is one of those evolution kind of things.

That tree pictured is still pretty solid, looks like I need to get some surveying tape to mark the trees that need to be dropped and cut up.

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[growalot]

We've had it for years...some trees go faster than others though not all trees have it...they will live quite a long time with it.

[Pygmy]

3 hours ago, chas0218 said:

It looks like the neighbors property has it too. Back at my parents place in 8F I have never saw it either. I just stumbled across a post on another forum about it and it had me looking for it and found out I have a lot of it. I hope I can catch the trees that have it early so I can at least use them for firewood. Not sure if I can mill them for lumber/wood working with the blight but will be looking into it. I have a lot of newer growth (4"-10") across and it doesn't seem tot be affected. I feel like it is one of those evolution kind of things.

That tree pictured is still pretty solid, looks like I need to get some surveying tape to mark the trees that need to be dropped and cut up.

It's all over in this area, Chas... In some areas I hunt most of the mature beech has been affected...The saplings keep coming up, but they will probably develop it to, just like the American Chestnut did years ago.

[chas0218]

18 hours ago, Pygmy said:

It's all over in this area, Chas... In some areas I hunt most of the mature beech has been affected...The saplings keep coming up, but they will probably develop it to, just like the American Chestnut did years ago.

Yeah I have never saw it until I moved down here. At my parents we haven't had any bore beetles yet either. 

19 hours ago, growalot said:

We've had it for years...some trees go faster than others though not all trees have it...they will live quite a long time with it.

Yeah, I'm only going to cut up the ones that are damaged and the dead standing, hopefully the dead standing I wont need to season very long. I have some larger trees that aren't showing any signs.

[growalot]

You be dang careful cutting those dead standing... if yours are like ours they are :

1.  punky

2.  riddled with bugs

3.  full of woodpecker holes

 This makes a top snap more than likely when your cutting...We just had an 80 ft. one we had to let drop on it's own. Fell yesterday it literally blew up into several heavy sections when it hit....3-8 ft sections. standing dead around here stay that way unless they are under 4 in calipers. or due to drop on equipment areas or buildings.