History and Distribution
Beech bark disease was first documented in Europe in 1849. At first, it was believed that the insect was the main cause of the disease. It wasn’t until 1914 that the fungus was associated with the disease. The first outbreak of beech bark disease in North America appeared in American Beech (Fagus grandifolia) in Nova Scotia around 1920. The disease then started to spread to the south and west. In 1929, the first case of beech bark disease was found in the United States in Massachusetts. By 2004, the disease had spread as far west as Michigan and as far south as western North Carolina.
Read more about this topic: Beech Bark Disease
Famous quotes containing the words history and, history and/or distribution:
“The basic idea which runs right through modern history and modern liberalism is that the public has got to be marginalized. The general public are viewed as no more than ignorant and meddlesome outsiders, a bewildered herd.”
—Noam Chomsky (b. 1928)
“The history of all hitherto existing society is the history of class struggles.”
—Karl Marx (1818–1883)
“The man who pretends that the distribution of income in this country reflects the distribution of ability or character is an ignoramus. The man who says that it could by any possible political device be made to do so is an unpractical visionary. But the man who says that it ought to do so is something worse than an ignoramous and more disastrous than a visionary: he is, in the profoundest Scriptural sense of the word, a fool.”
—George Bernard Shaw (1856–1950)