Snake Fungal Disease Is Spreading in California. What Can We Do?
As statewide funding for disease surveillance runs out this year, here’s what to look out for—and how to be a friend to your local snakes.
Tag: disease
Disease Outbreak Appears to be Killing Bay Area Trees
In at least one tree species, scientists say the culprit appears to be a fungal pathogen.
Biodiversity and the Spread of Disease
Throughout history ecology has often driven infectious disease.
What Do I Need To Know About Feeding Birds In My Yard?
I've started to put out bird seed in my North Oakland backyard and have enjoyed the visitors. What do I need to know about feeding wild birds in my yard?
Biologists remove disease-spreading invasive frogs from Golden Gate Park
The "bubonic plague" of amphibian diseases is being carried by an invasive frog that's turned up in Golden Gate Park.
California deer infected with non-native lice
California deer are suffering from an infestation of non-native lice that’s causing baldness and other health problems.
Sleuthing Sudden Oak Death
By the time that sudden oak death (SOD) began hitting North Bay oaks and tanoaks in the mid-1990s, Ted Swiecki and Elizabeth Bernhardt, husband-and-wife plant pathologists, had been studying oak...
Watch Your Step
Since 2000, sudden oak death has spread through 14 California counties, including all nine in the Bay Area, threatening our signature oak woodlands. Though rain, wind, and fog have caused...
Confronting Sudden Oak Death
Although the disease is popularly known as Sudden Oak Death, the funguslike organism that causes it, Phytophthora ramorum, is also responsible for less severe symptoms in a number of other...
Sudden Oak Death Update
A lot has happened in the battle against Sudden Oak Death (SOD) since Bay Nature reported on it in January. To date, the disease has been identified in black oak,...
