Seeing it south of there too!
Red Oak Blight as a diagnosis is like calling oak wilt "decline".
They first need to properly designate disease, specify what it is before opening the door to treatment options.
There five major diseases, three fungal that are giving you the landscape you're witnessing. Die-offs are rampant and are under reported. It's not that they aren't attempting specific treatments, it's that it's impossible to address large scale epidemics when 99 percent of the lab work is concentrating on qualifying specific protocols for use in individual infected trees.
Can you imagine if here, as we have 78 Texas counties reporting large scale loss of oaks (our principle hardwood specimen), that the treatment all the schools have concentrated on could be issued on a forest environment? At $350.00 or more per tree? It's not that they aren't doing anything about it, it's just that they CAN'T do anything about it. Not the way their set-up to do it anyway.
