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An International Symposium on SOD will be held online from April 21 to May 4 by the American Phytopathological Society.

So after 7 years, it's time to study the problem. Since these 'scientists' are now living off the problem, what's their incentive for a solution? Last year (several years after the infestation spread), the County Ag commissioner established a quarantine on the transportation of firewood that is not enforced and thus ignored. It's too late, the stuff is everywhere. And it's probably spread more by birds and squirrels than man. Mismanagement of the woods continues.

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My oak table seems under the weather.

[rusty millet]

The symposium is a method for communicating results and getting new ideas, not to begin studying the problem.
The incentive for scientists to find a solution is different than the incentive for local and state political figures. Much of the incentive is scientific curiosity, and, of course, professional stature.
There are several inaccuracies in the article, but the fungus is actually spread by wind-blown spores, and the issue is only peripherally related to mismanagement of woods. All plant pathologists I know really are interested in problem solving. Our reputations as competent researchers depend on it.