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Old 06-07-2010, 08:23 AM   #30
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We noticed the same exact thing with the pines! We have been talking about it for a couple of days. I know there is a pine disease which might strike one tree but not the one next to it. We lost a huge one to it a couple of years ago. But you are right, so many of them are brown this spring that we are wondering if it is this or something else. If it is that disease we are going to lose a lot of pine trees!!
I think (and hope) it's just lack of rain and not disease. From what I notice on my property, areas/branches of our pine trees that get direct sun are turning brown and shedding needles. The trees that are mostly shaded look fine.
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