Evergreen Tree's Dying in Michigan

[white cloud]

Anybody else in this state losing pine and spruce trees. It started two falls ago, I noticed alot of my white pine where dying off, just in the front yard. I had planted maybe 60 trees out there and over 1000 out back and now they are starting to die off slowly. When I first noticed it two falls ago I had contacted the state conservation office and they gave me the cell phone # to the forestry guy. Well I left tons of messages and never got a call back, untill the next spring (last year) when I left this message. Yeah I had called you a bunch of times and am really concerned about my trees dying off, you would think if there was an epidemic of some sorts you would get on it as soon as possible Your just another one of them lazy a** f***** government employees.Well he called back in minutes and said I am the lazy a** f***** government employee calling back. He was here the next morning and suspected it was root crown weevles which there ain't much you can do about it. I was wondering how widespread this was.

 

[master_dman]

Kinda funny how you had to call 'em as you see 'em before they ever acknowledged you.

Our tax dollars at work.!

 

[huskersmokeman]

We've got lots of pines dying off here in Nebraska, as well. I heard it was a type of fungus doing all of the damage around here. The trees just start slowly turning brown around the bottom, and the rest of the tree just slowly gets brown until the whole thing is dead. Of course, we don't have near the quantity of pine you do in Michigan, but it's still a shame.

 

[coyote]

wc
excellent..here in NM seems that I am noticing pines that are browning up..one of the guys said it was some bore bug. I really do not know.

 

[geob]

Most everybody in the South has the problem of pines dying. Here it's a pine beetle. It bores inside and stops the sap flow. You can tell if you have them by looking on the ground around the tree and see if you notice lots of sawdust. If you do, good luck. Nothing you can do. Cut the tree and you will notice a blue trace where the sap flows. If you take it to sell you don't get as much for the lumber because of the sap being blue.

Katrina really moved the bettles around a lot becasue of all the damaged trees, which they love.

Hope this is not your problem.

geob

 

[ajthepoolman]

I would say that we lost 90% of the pines in our neighborhood about 7 years ago. The guys who are really smart with trees said it was the beetle too. I cut mine down and replaced it with a silver maple.

 

[white cloud]

I have an ortho book which help diagnose problems with trees and other various plants and shrubs. My first observation and determination was the pine bark beetle, which bores into the bark. The G Man claims,and I guess I have to believe him, is that the beetle only infests sick and dying trees and they were sick and dying because of the root crown weevel. I just cut down tonight and burn't 2 twelve footers, It makes me sick to do that. I planted some of these 12 years ago. and they were doing real good.

 

[pigcicles]

I lost the only two cedars I had in my yard. About a year apart. The second just turned brown and was done. I didn't investigate why it happened though.

 

[white cloud]

I was rototilling this morning around the border of my garden and snapped this pic, I just hate thinking what it will look like without these tress back behind the pond,

 

[white cloud]

you can barley see the asperagus (bottom left) and the chives coming up.

 

[cowgirl]

Like you're pond Whitecloud.