Sudden Oak Life by Lee Klinger

In 2020, at the height of the COVID pandemic, I kept my focus on tending trees and began fire mimicry treatments on a grove of sick and diseased coast live oaks in Salinas, CA. Well here they are, three years later, flourishing! One diseased oak, however, did not survive despite a valiant recovery effort in the first year. Note also, in the final photo set, that the untreated (control) oak has died.