Lots of larches are immune to this infection, and if they remain in place we'll still have larches in twenty years.
If the Forestry Commission's plans go ahead then all the larches from here to Scotland will end up being felled.
The people who work for Sheffield Council's forestry department are tearing their hair out about this, from what I hear. Their feeling is that it would be better to only remove trees which are showing an adverse reaction to the infection, and to allow others to remain in the hope that they'll be resistant. But the SPHN which has been served doesn't allow for that. It makes compulsory the felling of all larches within a certain distance of infected ones.
My feeling is that the forestry department's staff are better informed, or have a better plan for the future of trees, than the Forestry Commission.
Sad.