Priest Point Pathogens

We met up with Tom Otto and Ira Davis, arborists for  the City of Olympia, and they showed us the pathogens in Priest Point Park.  Here are some pictures of our experience:

Tom ousting the middle of the remains of a Phaeolus schweinitzii casualty.  This tree was a Douglas fir when it was still alive, the cubicle rot of the wood is characteristic of the rot caused by this species.

This big leaf maple had to be cut because of a rot occurring at the base.  The neighboring maple had a similar rot and fell in the middle of the parking lot; luckily no one was hurt! They cut this tree down before the Hypoxilon rotted it enough to completely fall over at an unpredictable time.

Here is a picture of the culprit, Hypoxilon.

Here is a great example of Phellinus sulfarescens (formely P. wereii).  Isaac cut the rot out, and we will curate this into our pathogen teaching collection.