Blemished bark on oak saplings

[maple man]

Merry Christmas folks
I went walking through my woodlot in Dixmont Maine today and noticed some three inch Diameter oak saplings that had broken blister type defects all over the bark. This looks a lot like the Nectria complex that afflicts almost all beech in this area. Does anyone know what could be causing this? I can't see any other differences between the affected and unaffected saplings but they are still small and if this is something bad now would be the time to weed them out.

[kwendt]

Hi and welcome. I'm not a forester... But there are many on here. Can you take a couple pictures and post them?

[Holmes]

  Could it be you are looking at Chestnut with blight? I was told that the chestnut still lives in the Northeast , they get to be 2 to 3" in diameter and die from the blight.