From AwayToGarden.com and RobinhoodRadio.com, this is AwayToGarden with Margaret Roach.

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A big old copper beach tree is a focal point of my garden and each time I look out the

window at it admiringly these days, I feel the same love and gratitude I always have

for its grandeur, but also a deepening twinge of worry. These are increasingly tough times

for beaches, both European ones like my copper beach and on a far bigger environmental scale,

the precious native beach trees of our eastern North American forests. I'm joined today by Beth

Brantley of Bartlett Tree Research Laboratories

who's speaking July 18th on the future of beaches at the annual in-person and virtual

Woody Plant Conference. It's got our beridimates worth more college, so more in a moment,

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Beth Brantley, whose doctorate is in plant pathology, is the Northeast Research Scientist with

Bartlett Tree Research Laboratories, providing support to Bartlett's regional offices, conducting

our Bureculture Research and sharing her knowledge through teaching and presentations.

Beach Leaf Disease, one of the newer challenges facing beach trees today, is a particular

interest of Beths, and she's here to tell us about that

and other pest and pathogen pressures facing these important trees. Welcome bath, how are you?

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