Too late to stop oak death, study says

A new scientific report says that sudden oak death has spread so far that statewide efforts to stop or slow it are no longer feasible and have been impossible for over a decade. 

Researchers, who used computer modeling to examine the spread of a water mold called oomycete phytophthora ramorum wrote in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences that it may have been possible in 2002 to curb sudden oak death, though it…