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Since the Texans scored their last touchdown, Steve Coyle saw fit to
opine:

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If someone is disposing of an Oak Wilt infested tree, the ground up
material would contain Oakwilt disease. Ted Fischer, our former county
extension agent used to talk about how Oak Wilt had lived in pockets
through out the centuries but the major spread occurred during the
clear cutting for power lines in the hill country and clearing of land
for sub division construction.
The brush would be piled up and burned, and incomplete burning of
the ash would result in Oak Wilt infested material moving to new
locations on the wind.
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I certainly won't argue with Ted, even through a proxy, but I've been
given to understand that burning the wood kills the spores. We have
cut a bunch of dead oak, and our extension agent has told us that it's
OK to burn it - it can't pass the infection that way.

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