Government Agency Involvement
In England in 2009, the Forestry Commission, DEFRA, the Food and Environment Research Agency, Cornwall County Council, and Natural England are working together to record the locations and deal with this disease. Natural England is offering grant funding through its Environmental Stewardship, Countryside Stewardship and Environmentally Sensitive Area schemes to clear rhododendron. In 2011, the Forestry Commission started felling 10,000 acres (40 km2) of larch forest in the SW of England, as an attempt to halt the spread of the disease. In Northern Ireland at the end of 2011, the Department of Agriculture and Rural Development’s Forest Service began felling 14 hectares of affected Larch woodland at Moneyscalp, on the edge of Tollymore Forest Park in County Down.
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