Sudden Oak Death: Whats in It for Us?
By Andrew Rader, LAc, MS In early August, my family and I had the good fortune to be able to spend a week on the Big Sur coast. It was there that we met Lee Klinger, PhD. Dr. Klinger is an ecologist who is a leading scholar in earth systems science and Gaia theory. GA_googleFillSlot(“acupuncturetoday_com_Articles_Pages_Rectangle”); He had been in Big Sur for the past few years doing research and work on sudden oak death, a phenomenon that is killing not only oak trees in California and Southern Oregon, but also is a scourge moving into other tree species and spreading geographically. Big Sur is being hit hard by this problem. Dr. Klinger has been a tree expert for many years and has traveled the world studying trees. When he came to California, he noticed some anomalies. Amongst the very old oaks, 200 years or older, the growth pattern of the trees were unusual in that amongst the old trees, there was a major branching low to the ground. Younger trees had a single trunk that followed a
