What is happening to our pine trees?

My pine trees don't look so good, in fact they may be dying, what is happening? There are many causes for declining pine tree health. Trees can be easily stressed. read more

Bark beetles are attacking the pines and some firs in epidemic numbers in the Sierra Nevada. It is a result of years of drought and absence of thinning the forests properly. read more

Even tall trees where salt spray is unlikely to be important, pines are dropping their needles. After driving the same route back this morning, I’d estimate this is happening to about 10% of the pines I can see along the road (perhaps only 8%, but perhaps a good bit higher). And, it isn’t just eastern white pine. read more

Trees make Potomac a ‘green wedge’ in a rapidly urbanizing county. They are, in large part, our insurance against increasing development pressures. Justice William O. Douglas, to whom we owe credit for the wondrous C&O Canal National Historical Park which forms the N.W. border of our Subregion, believed that trees should have legal standing. read more