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Leon Valley public works urges residents to avoid pruning oaks through June and consider treatment in mapped zones
Summary
Assistant public works director presented Texas A&M Forest Service mapping showing oak-wilt pockets in town, urged residents not to prune oaks Feb.1–June 30, and described trenching and injectable fungicide as prevention measures.
David (Dave) Damline, the city's assistant public works director, told the council that oak wilt — a lethal fungal vascular disease — has been mapped in two Leon Valley areas (Bluebird and Evers Road) and that residents in those zones should consider treatment options and take precautions.
"Prevention, you wanna avoid pruning the oak trees between February and June 30,"…
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