Red alert in Britain's forests as Black death sweeps in

Just before Christmas, you could stand at the top of Crynant Forest in South Wales and not have a clue that there was a village in the valley below. Today, the view down to the little white houses is uninterrupted. Where in mid-December there were thousands of larch trees, now there is a mass of stumps and branches.

Read the rest of the article in The Telegraph. Ignore the parts about P. ramorum being "a lethal virus from Asia".