Our friends in the Tanglewood Neighborhood Association kindly shared this information from the City Arborist with us:

The Leawood Drive tree issue was, and continues to be the same as what Tanglewood is facing. The disease is called Bacterial Leaf Scorch and it is hammering our pin oaks. There are other trees that are susceptible to it, but here in Frankfort, it has really settled into our pin oaks.

Currently, there is no cure.

Last week however, there was a team of Research Scientists from MN in town as Frankfort was selected to participate in a treatment trial. I am optimistic that something positive will come from this. They will be back in mid-late August to assess the treated trees.

I’ve included two links to websites with more information on the disease and recommendations for prolonging the inevitable death of the tree.  The Tree Geek is maintained by the company doing the trial and you are likely familiar with UK- host of the other site.

If you have any additional questions, please feel free to stay in contact with me. Also, I am posting articles in the State-Journal as updates are available on the trials, so you may want to keep a lookout there as well for new information.

http://www.thetreegeek.com/problems/bacterial-leaf-scorch/

http://www2.ca.uky.edu/agcollege/plantpathology/ext_files/PPFShtml/PPFS-OR-W-12.pdf

Regards,
Lorri B Grueber, Arborist
City of Frankfort