Saturday, October 6, 2018

A small and informal experiment suggests that the agent/s of the die-off can be reproducibly transmitted from an affected frond to a healthy one

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This informal experiment suggests that the agent/s are mobile in water, and will affect healthy fronds sharing water with a diseased frond, ...
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Early data on survival rates of 24 ferns at Seward’s Ground Zero versus 12 at the edge of the active die-off zone

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Hypothesis:  the hypothetical agent of the die-off  does not persist in an affected area. We planted 24 fronds at Ground Zero GZ) at Se...
Sunday, July 1, 2018

10 apparently long-dead ferns with miniscule fronds sprouting

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Following the suggestion of Betsy Dowling of Zanzibar Landscape Design (Betsy contributed the earthworm hypothesis a few months ago) I today...
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Port Ludlow Die-Off History 2008 - present

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From:    Ellen Theisen and Ken Thompson   We are writing to you in the hopes that you have discovered a remedy for the sword fern die-off...
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Thursday, June 21, 2018

A proposal for experimental restoration of long-term bare ground die-off sites at Seward Park

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Submitted to Seattle Parks & Verdant LLC on May 31st 2018 Here for your consideration and critique is my strawman proposal for expe...
Monday, May 7, 2018

Fort Worden Recovery

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Darrell Howe reports on a recent visit to Fort Worden that the ferns we thought were dying in 2017 are in fact recovering, sprouting new fid...
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Thursday, April 5, 2018

What's Next? A proposal to plant Oregon Grape from native seed

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My initial shock has diminished - at the broad loss of sword ferns to the north of Ground Zero, between the Hatchery enclosure and the sqebe...
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