Sudden oak death a threat to Ore. timber industry

DANIEL SIMMONS-RITCHIE The World COOS BAY, Ore. Walter Suttle knows the cost of catching sudden oak death. His employer, the national horticultural supplier Monrovia, gained headlines seven years ago, after its California nursery accidentally shipped contaminated camellias to at least six states. The disease already was known as a voracious killer of oak trees, but no one had known it could jump ...