Black Walnut

[Greg Just]

I subscribe to Fine Woodworking's weekly e-news letter and in the edition received today there is an article about the Thousand Cankers Black Walnut Disease. I had not heard of this. I love turning black walnut and now we have something else to worry about. The link to the article is http://www.finewoodworking.com/item/...nkers-disease? Going to a related link within the newsletter, the website http://www.thousandcankerdisease.com/ lists confirmed populations are scattered throughout western states of Washington, Oregon, California, Idaho, Utah, Colorado, Arizona, New Mexico and now Tennessee. For those that harvest and move black walnut around, this is something to be aware of to help prevent the spread of this disease.

[John Keeton]

Greg, there have been a couple of discussion threads on this topic that you might want to review -

http://www.sawmillcreek.org/showthre...e-Black-Walnut

http://www.sawmillcreek.org/showthre...out-many-trees

[Dale Miner]

I subscribe to Fine Woodworking's weekly e-news letter and in the edition received today there is an article about the Thousand Cankers Black Walnut Disease. I had not heard of this. I love turning black walnut and now we have something else to worry about. The link to the article is http://www.finewoodworking.com/item/...nkers-disease? Going to a related link within the newsletter, the website http://www.thousandcankerdisease.com/ lists confirmed populations are scattered throughout western states of Washington, Oregon, California, Idaho, Utah, Colorado, Arizona, New Mexico and now Tennessee. For those that harvest and move black walnut around, this is something to be aware of to help prevent the spread of this disease.

Also, now at least parts of Ohio.

[Thom Sturgill]

Wood moved out of its area should be de-barked. The ambrosia beetle made it to Florida and is damaging avocado trees and killing red bud IIRC. I know our club received some ambrosia maple out of Massachusetts that still had bark on it. Some turners from up there brought a truck load down to swap with turners in Miami. That deal fell through so we got it for some local rosewood and mahogany. I have always wondered if we did not contribute to the spread - except that if we had not traded they were going to dump it rather than transport it back in a rented truck.

[Richard Coers]

I'd say there won't be many walnuts around in less than a decade. You don't know the tree is infected until it's terminal. It will go the way of ash, American chestnut, Dutch elm, and butternut. Butternut canker has lowered numbers by over 75% in some regions.