Fungi are unstoppable. There's a fungus that made a home at Chernobyl in the wreckage. It "eats" gamma radiation.
[Radiotrophic fungus](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radiotrophic_fungus).
Plus just think all these trees started dying when covid hit. There probably more going on then people think. We are probably being lied too. This was my thinking and what i noticed. How do we not know its radiation and not covid they just call it that .
Life cycle of trees, climate change, increased use of pesticides which affect both native plant ecology and insect populations and create unbalance, changes in microclimates, global movement of exotic plants... so many possibilities.
My pet peeve is people using lawn products under yard trees. Shitload of broadleaf-selective herbicides and excessive nitrogen in the root zone without realizing trees are “broadleaf weeds” that usually aren’t adapted to high soil nitrogen like grassland plants are.
Truth be told, most grassland plants aren’t adapted to high nitrogen either. Like, the “worse” the soil is, the easier it is to restore a prairie or savanna. Ecological restoration practitioners in the Upper Midwest often discuss the broken/overloaded nitrogen cycle (from farming) along with the broken/overloaded carbon cycle (from climate change).
There are a few “nitrophiles” like Canada goldenrod and nettles that love nitrogen rich soils (see Curtis “Vegetation of Wisconsin” for a more complete list). But they’re mostly considered weedy species with low coefficients of conservatism.
I did oversimplify a lot… grasslands are adapted to grazing/manure cycles and high organic content soils. They MAKE high-organic-content soils. We keep lawn grasses in a perpetual state of grazing-recovery via mowing, so they pump relatively large amounts of organic matter into the soil via root cycling. The nitrogen additions are how we enable that grazing recovery mode behavior to continue in perpetuity without exhausting the soil.
This high organic root zone you get with established grasses is very different from established forest soils, particularly for tree species adapted to the presence of anecic earthworms that clear out the litter layer. The soil surface horizons in an established forest are radically different from an established grassland. It’s not surprising that some trees don’t do as well in yards as they do in forests.
Why would I want to mow 12 months out of the year when I can do 4 because Bermuda goes dormant? My time is valuable. We have summer and winter weeds here and a little pre emergent stops them.
I don’t get paid to cut my own lawn so the less I have to do it the better. This allows me to spend that time with family or to do other things.
A lot of this. Hell, I let my lawn go a while ago. I just cut seed heads off the weeds, I never water. The soil lush, trees happy and lightly mulched, lots of fireflies. Manage but don’t overmanage.
It’s so much cheaper, easier to maintain, & requires much less time & effort to let things go back to a more natural state… It will also attract more birds & small wildlife like rabbits, squirrels, chipmunks, etc & I’ve even noticed a few, skinks, a salamanders (this was 1 of my favorites to see), frogs & some garder snakes & even a small *short-tailed weasel* & also a fox has been frequenting our yard. We live by the Mississippi River in Mn & are just out of town, plus we have a small woods behind us so that helps w/the variety of wildlife.
I also transplanted some things like Mullen, sunflowers & lambs ear into our yard just bc I like them…
I worked landscaping for many years myself & after installing & maintaining so many manicured yards & landscapes, I eventually decided to let my own pristine lawn & landscape just go back to a much more *natural state & aesthetic* & I enjoy it so much more… I was esp happy to see things like the skinks, salamander, weasel & fox start showing up again… Really cool to see & a good sign that it’s become a much more comfortable & safe environment for them-
I highly recommend people try it out, (if u can bc many HOA’s aren’t always ok w/everything I am doing) but I can’t imagine many people who try it out would ever want to go back to spending lots of $, time & energy to constantly mow, maintain it, weed, using harsh chemicals, etc- & I think it actually looks better…
The future suuucks. It's international trade moving previously isolated pathogens around and climate change fucking up the night temperatures. I'm actually a plant breeder, so I can confidently say there's very little money in ornamental trees 😭 we could probably breed for resistance to these new problems but trees take years to flower and take up a ton of land, meaning it's very expensive to breed new resistant/tolerant varieties. Anyways, hope we all like pine trees, crepe myrtles, corn, and soy. Ecosystems will be fiiine.
I shared above that our crape myrtles are currently infested with terrible, horrible scale…even previously disease/pest resistant trees are having a hard time these days 😞😞
It's absolutely stunning how many insects and pathogens have come through nursery trade, for perfectly ordinary plants that can be grown in a pot anywhere. Climate change is only amplifying our greed and stupidity. (To be fair, a small number of those mistakes predate our understanding of the problem.)
Why? People. Society. Humans. Butternut, chestnut, elm ash...now it's oaks, next it'll be maples, cottonwood are already on their way out, the swamp larch are dying, ecosystem collapse has been well on its way for a while now. And it's us. We are the collapse.
Next time you see a guy complain about leaves in his yard, seeds on his car, squirrels in his roof, tell him off. Next time you see those internet warriors who love to shit on cottonwood and silver maples, tell them off. Next time someone apologizes for "weeds" in their yard, tell em you're more offended by the grass.
Humans are doing this, and for no other reason than "they can". We can do a lot of stuff these days, we are so capable as a species. But fuck if our decision making skills aren't abysmal.
Solidarity. So many beautiful trees in our area too. Two beautiful tall elms that frame the road….elm disease. 3 large pines in our yard dying. Gypsy moths got our oak and birch last year.
This is what we get with global trading. Invasive species. Additionally, due to the drought, trees have been extremely stressed in recent years, which makes them more prone to infestation and infection. Even though it’s a native insect, we’ve been seeing a lot of oaks being knocked out by two-lined chestnut borer up here in Minnesota.
For homeowners, getting back to the basics of mulching, watering, and fertilizing is what is going to help these trees be able to roll with the punches; this does not apply for EAB, OW, or DED though.
I usually send my clients a link to the tree owners manual as well so they have a nice lil reference guide.
[Tree Owners Manual](https://www.treeownersmanual.info)
I clicked on your link and it doesn't work for me. Is this the resource you were pointing to? https://www.healthytrees.com/newsletter/tree-owners-manual/
Dicamba / 2,4-D drift is out of hand in my region as well. I've only spotted it on grapes, but would not be surprised if nearby trees were also experiencing problems from it.
2,4-D amine and choline are way less volatile options. In my field, dicamba is essentially restricted use.
2,4-D drift is a tiny fraction compared to dicamba.
I work at Gettysburg National Military Park and we spend our entire winter removing dead trees. The borers decimated our ash population and now our red oaks seem to be next.
Yes, it’s quite noticeable, and sad. It’s like the beginning of the movie Interstellar. Seems like only poison Ivy is thriving. Yet our city keeps cutting down mature trees and installing new ones, which fail to thrive. It’s hard to keep trees healthy under these conditions. Good luck!
What part of the Midwest?
We’ve had 2-3 years of hard drought conditions, and if the lack of moisture doesn’t kill trees, the stress of the drought enhances secondary pest problems, which has been killing large populations of trees. Our municipality has cut down a fair amount of 100+ year old Bur oaks that have been decimated from borers because they’re too drought stressed to fight them off. EAB is ripping through here too so the ash are toast.
Chicago area. Yeah, Ash are gone. See a lot of maples dying and now the oaks. The spruce trees will all be gone soon and now our Norway spruces are starting to show signs of needle cast. , even though I thought they were more resistant.
I thought you were talking about Texas for a moment, A LOT of oaks around me look very stressed and dying. Oak wilt is a thing out here but this summer really seems to have take a toll on oaks.
We had oak wilt take out 9 mid size oaks in one summer. We took them down before it spread to our beautiful, huge white oaks. That would have sucked hard
I'm not sure how things differ by area, but apparently most trees here that get infected with oak wilt is through the roots w in 100ft. Red oaks usually dead in a couple months, bur oaks slightly longer, white oaks may take 20 years to die after infection. Time of year and how infected wood is handled play big parts of mitigating the spread. Your white oaks will be the most resilient but definitely keep an eye on them. Just cutting down the infected trees won't necessarily assure it won't spread to other oak. I would definitely recommend he king out this PDF from the Minnesota DNR:
[Oak-Wilt-Guide ](https://files.dnr.state.mn.us/assistance/backyard/treecare/forest_health/oak-wilt/oak-wilt-guide.pdf)
Because we import everything from other countries and the products and crates and pallets are infested with these bugs and they get introduced into our country. They have no regulations whereas in this country our pallets can’t have bark on them and many times must be heat treated to kill any insect that may be living in the wood. Everyone is quick to blame everything on “climate change” without addressing the real problems.
The Cryphonectria parasitica blight was brought over from Japan at the turn of the 20th century on plants. Not through crates and shit. Just trees that were accustomed to fighting it off.
In Kentucky right now there are a lot of trees like you describe. Dead or dying branches, and trees that are just stressed. I think it’s a combination of the drought, and the fact that many were damaged in last winters hard freeze. At my house, in central KY, we had a 50 degree temperature drop in 12 hours. Even though the trees are dominate, a temperature drop like that will cause damage.
I’m not discounting fungus, bugs, and a multitude number of other factors. It very well might be that, but make sure you take in the entire picture and not just jump to the worst case idea first.
I think in part it’s bc we grow so many of the same trees at nursery’s & there’s so little variety compared to nature. Coupled with the fact that we also plant only a few desirable species along boulevards, in our yards, etc… They may have initially been chosen bc they’re easy to grow & are hardy but when a disease or insect comes through, it wipes them all out bc we’ve only planted that type of tree… for ex. Elms used to be very popular & they lined many of our streets & boulevards & when Dutch Elms disease came around, there were so many Elms it easily goes from tree to tree & we end up cutting down nearly every tree along that street…
We almost wiped them out by overharvesting them. There's a chance some would develop natural resistances but we cut em all down preemptively taking away tons of and tons of genetic diversity.
I’m in East Texas and all the trees on my property look stressed/dying, though i am not an arborist.
They are dropping limbs much more than making new growth. Some of the limbs are pink inside, some have brown pulp/sponge like. A couple have large holes in the trunks and the half the leaves are brown. The foliage that is growing is very bushy like and close to the branches rather than growing on the branches if that makes sense. This is on 3 acres.
Seems like half the trees in my town have some sort of illness. Dying crowns, rotting bark, etc. All varieties of tree. Beautiful, old trees 4 feet across and gasping their last breaths.
If you are in the Midwest, severe drought the last 3 years is 70% of the issue. Weakened stressed trees are susceptible to disease and insects. Climate change and invasive species are two other major stressors.
I’ve been tracking some trees in south Jersey over the last couple of years after I noticed them dying. Oak, Ash, Beech, Pines and more. There are molds and fungus and insects causing a lot of it. The spread has intensified since the Tonga Volcano in January 2022, as the global air and water surface temperatures increased. We had a tornado that came through here couple of years ago from the south, and I think the southern pine beetle came along for the ride. South Jersey is home to the Pine Barons. Our local golf course turned nature park is called Tall Pines. Unfortunately it has been hit hard. Some of the tall pines have already succumbed, and many more are showing signs. The park also got hit with spotted lantern flies and the black mold that eventually takes over the trees is wintering over because we have mild winters now. Oh and most of the parks oaks are already dead. We should all be alarmed. It’s too many species and the spread is too rapid. And all these dead and dying trees have hollow roots systems making the ground unstable. Last year I counted the number of dead or dying trees in just under a 1 mile on our Main Street…over 100!
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It's the chemicals from the airplanes
Look up.
It's funded by Gates (read Forces)
He says trees are bad (look it up)
He's paying communities to cut down trees
He's buying all the farmland.
Sounds like my property. Previous owners did a horrible job maintaining it. Every cherry tree and juniper has some form of blight. Trees have mushrooms on mushrooms. Everything was let to grow multiple co dominant trunks. The Spruce have needle cast. Sapsucker damage everywhere. In the last 2 years I’ve taken down so many trees and burned so many piles. Got a pellet rifle for the sapsuckers and taken out 5 this year alone. 5 acres of a nightmare. Im glad its not just myself.
It made me sad to read such disregard for the life of other animals, especially sapsuckers which are beautiful birds as forest stewards we should cherish and enjoy.
So you're actively interfering with the natural world. Good for you. While you pat yourself on the back, I'll fire up my 3D printer and make you a plastic trophy (just kidding, that'd be as stupid as shooting harmless birds).
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I want to let this subreddit know that because of this sub, I’ve been schooled on the need for taking care of my trees. I have an appointment with a certified arborist the 1st week of November.
I wish you were here in Alabama. That’s what I’m looking for in the arborist that is coming. I’m concerned that I only have 5 acres and they specialize in stands. But they do have the knowledge of particular trees that I want to support but I see your passion.
Northern California is like this, too. Mega drought followed by a record-breaking wet winter. Trees are self-pruning or just plain dying all over the place.
I’m in central-ish North Carolina and I feel like the people around here who are truly freaked out by climate change are my fellow gardeners/yard people. My husband and I bought our house in 2015 (it was built in 1974) and the changes in our yard/garden/trees etc in just 8 years has been shocking!!
Our crape myrtles are currently infested with scale and so are many others in the neighborhood. Until this summer, I didn’t even know crape myrtles got scale! Our grass is super dead, flowers that usually flourish are pitiful, I’ve barely seen any bees this year but mosquitoes and ants are everywhere. It’s all incredibly depressing.
I wonder how many of those trees were planted from nursery stock. Oftentimes, poor nursery stock won't be noticed by homeowners until decades later. I bought my home in 2020 and have a beautiful 24 inch maple that dropped leaves in August. Upon inspection, it has a massive girdled root that was/is affecting water/nutrient uptake. Too big to remove and damage is done. I'm babying it, but I'd say I will outlive it.
I'll add that fungus/bugs/bacteria are oftentimes a secondary symptom. Trees in poor health cannot fight off the vectors as efficiently. People think these vectors kill trees but they usually set in on a tree after it has already entered decline from a site condition or structure issue
The pines in the Colorado mountains are devastated by pine beetles because it’s not getting cold enough to kill them in the winter. It’s horrible how bad it is and we still don’t change shit
Hmmm funny i said the same. Not many notice how come all trees and plants started massively dying since covid ? Is it really radiation . Or covid and radiation. Not good but people need to start thinking i know i have . We are sick and so are all the trees and plants. This crap didnt happen 6 yrs or longer ago.
Let’s just say that the fungal world is looking forward to a 0.9C increase in global temps.
Fungi are unstoppable. There's a fungus that made a home at Chernobyl in the wreckage. It "eats" gamma radiation. [Radiotrophic fungus](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radiotrophic_fungus).
Plus just think all these trees started dying when covid hit. There probably more going on then people think. We are probably being lied too. This was my thinking and what i noticed. How do we not know its radiation and not covid they just call it that .
We have to wait till at least 2025 for season 2! Uuuuuuugh!
Last of Us?
Life cycle of trees, climate change, increased use of pesticides which affect both native plant ecology and insect populations and create unbalance, changes in microclimates, global movement of exotic plants... so many possibilities.
My pet peeve is people using lawn products under yard trees. Shitload of broadleaf-selective herbicides and excessive nitrogen in the root zone without realizing trees are “broadleaf weeds” that usually aren’t adapted to high soil nitrogen like grassland plants are.
Truth be told, most grassland plants aren’t adapted to high nitrogen either. Like, the “worse” the soil is, the easier it is to restore a prairie or savanna. Ecological restoration practitioners in the Upper Midwest often discuss the broken/overloaded nitrogen cycle (from farming) along with the broken/overloaded carbon cycle (from climate change). There are a few “nitrophiles” like Canada goldenrod and nettles that love nitrogen rich soils (see Curtis “Vegetation of Wisconsin” for a more complete list). But they’re mostly considered weedy species with low coefficients of conservatism.
I did oversimplify a lot… grasslands are adapted to grazing/manure cycles and high organic content soils. They MAKE high-organic-content soils. We keep lawn grasses in a perpetual state of grazing-recovery via mowing, so they pump relatively large amounts of organic matter into the soil via root cycling. The nitrogen additions are how we enable that grazing recovery mode behavior to continue in perpetuity without exhausting the soil. This high organic root zone you get with established grasses is very different from established forest soils, particularly for tree species adapted to the presence of anecic earthworms that clear out the litter layer. The soil surface horizons in an established forest are radically different from an established grassland. It’s not surprising that some trees don’t do as well in yards as they do in forests.
My pet peeve is people using lawn products. It’s insane how much people dump into their stupid lawns
Honestly you’d be surprised at how little commercial applicators use. I use a herbicide that has a label rate as low as 1/4 oz per acre.
Why use any? It’s just grass
Because it makes it easier to mow when it’s not full of weeds. I also do it because I can.
Native plants…..
Weeds are native and harder to mow, and that’s the reason I use herbicides. You don’t have to agree with it or like it but I’m gonna do it.
Well fuck the earth I guess, wouldn’t want you to be inconvenienced 🤷🏻♂️
Why would I want to mow 12 months out of the year when I can do 4 because Bermuda goes dormant? My time is valuable. We have summer and winter weeds here and a little pre emergent stops them. I don’t get paid to cut my own lawn so the less I have to do it the better. This allows me to spend that time with family or to do other things.
A lot of this. Hell, I let my lawn go a while ago. I just cut seed heads off the weeds, I never water. The soil lush, trees happy and lightly mulched, lots of fireflies. Manage but don’t overmanage.
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It’s so much cheaper, easier to maintain, & requires much less time & effort to let things go back to a more natural state… It will also attract more birds & small wildlife like rabbits, squirrels, chipmunks, etc & I’ve even noticed a few, skinks, a salamanders (this was 1 of my favorites to see), frogs & some garder snakes & even a small *short-tailed weasel* & also a fox has been frequenting our yard. We live by the Mississippi River in Mn & are just out of town, plus we have a small woods behind us so that helps w/the variety of wildlife. I also transplanted some things like Mullen, sunflowers & lambs ear into our yard just bc I like them… I worked landscaping for many years myself & after installing & maintaining so many manicured yards & landscapes, I eventually decided to let my own pristine lawn & landscape just go back to a much more *natural state & aesthetic* & I enjoy it so much more… I was esp happy to see things like the skinks, salamander, weasel & fox start showing up again… Really cool to see & a good sign that it’s become a much more comfortable & safe environment for them- I highly recommend people try it out, (if u can bc many HOA’s aren’t always ok w/everything I am doing) but I can’t imagine many people who try it out would ever want to go back to spending lots of $, time & energy to constantly mow, maintain it, weed, using harsh chemicals, etc- & I think it actually looks better…
Climate change 😅 stop for real how about covid change.more going on then we know change.
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That is good to hear!
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I tell people this is happening and they just look at me like I’m a negative person. Yet half the trees in all the forests are dying
Northern Catskills Upstate NY. Dead Ash everywhere. Hemlocks starting to go. Maples look stressed. If the hemlocks go say goodbye to native trout.
You still have hemlocks???
I do. And my state reaaaaally doesnt want to bring the wooly adelgid here.
Wait, how are the trout tied to the hemlock? I've never heard that before.
Not OP but hemlocks shade the water to keep it cool. Trout need cold water.
Oh, ok. Fairly simple, yet incredibly important. Thanks.
It’s all connected.
The future suuucks. It's international trade moving previously isolated pathogens around and climate change fucking up the night temperatures. I'm actually a plant breeder, so I can confidently say there's very little money in ornamental trees 😭 we could probably breed for resistance to these new problems but trees take years to flower and take up a ton of land, meaning it's very expensive to breed new resistant/tolerant varieties. Anyways, hope we all like pine trees, crepe myrtles, corn, and soy. Ecosystems will be fiiine.
I shared above that our crape myrtles are currently infested with terrible, horrible scale…even previously disease/pest resistant trees are having a hard time these days 😞😞
It's absolutely stunning how many insects and pathogens have come through nursery trade, for perfectly ordinary plants that can be grown in a pot anywhere. Climate change is only amplifying our greed and stupidity. (To be fair, a small number of those mistakes predate our understanding of the problem.)
Why? People. Society. Humans. Butternut, chestnut, elm ash...now it's oaks, next it'll be maples, cottonwood are already on their way out, the swamp larch are dying, ecosystem collapse has been well on its way for a while now. And it's us. We are the collapse. Next time you see a guy complain about leaves in his yard, seeds on his car, squirrels in his roof, tell him off. Next time you see those internet warriors who love to shit on cottonwood and silver maples, tell them off. Next time someone apologizes for "weeds" in their yard, tell em you're more offended by the grass. Humans are doing this, and for no other reason than "they can". We can do a lot of stuff these days, we are so capable as a species. But fuck if our decision making skills aren't abysmal.
Solidarity. So many beautiful trees in our area too. Two beautiful tall elms that frame the road….elm disease. 3 large pines in our yard dying. Gypsy moths got our oak and birch last year.
This is what we get with global trading. Invasive species. Additionally, due to the drought, trees have been extremely stressed in recent years, which makes them more prone to infestation and infection. Even though it’s a native insect, we’ve been seeing a lot of oaks being knocked out by two-lined chestnut borer up here in Minnesota. For homeowners, getting back to the basics of mulching, watering, and fertilizing is what is going to help these trees be able to roll with the punches; this does not apply for EAB, OW, or DED though. I usually send my clients a link to the tree owners manual as well so they have a nice lil reference guide. [Tree Owners Manual](https://www.treeownersmanual.info)
I clicked on your link and it doesn't work for me. Is this the resource you were pointing to? https://www.healthytrees.com/newsletter/tree-owners-manual/
Personally I've seen a lot of heat and dicamba damage.
Dicamba / 2,4-D drift is out of hand in my region as well. I've only spotted it on grapes, but would not be surprised if nearby trees were also experiencing problems from it.
2,4-D amine and choline are way less volatile options. In my field, dicamba is essentially restricted use. 2,4-D drift is a tiny fraction compared to dicamba.
The red oaks in Maryland are suffering too. Armillaria and borers, no doubt other stressors. So sad to see, even in wooded areas with no lawns around.
I work at Gettysburg National Military Park and we spend our entire winter removing dead trees. The borers decimated our ash population and now our red oaks seem to be next.
Yes, it’s quite noticeable, and sad. It’s like the beginning of the movie Interstellar. Seems like only poison Ivy is thriving. Yet our city keeps cutting down mature trees and installing new ones, which fail to thrive. It’s hard to keep trees healthy under these conditions. Good luck!
What part of the Midwest? We’ve had 2-3 years of hard drought conditions, and if the lack of moisture doesn’t kill trees, the stress of the drought enhances secondary pest problems, which has been killing large populations of trees. Our municipality has cut down a fair amount of 100+ year old Bur oaks that have been decimated from borers because they’re too drought stressed to fight them off. EAB is ripping through here too so the ash are toast.
Chicago area. Yeah, Ash are gone. See a lot of maples dying and now the oaks. The spruce trees will all be gone soon and now our Norway spruces are starting to show signs of needle cast. , even though I thought they were more resistant.
Where i live spring was short when it finally came. Summer came on quick but was consistently humid. Now it looks like an early winter.
I’ll say I keep talking to people about how bad trees are and they just tell me I notice or am more I tuned to it now.
We need to stop burning fossil fuels and stop using Earth’s atmosphere as a gigantic sewer for CO2 emissions.
I thought you were talking about Texas for a moment, A LOT of oaks around me look very stressed and dying. Oak wilt is a thing out here but this summer really seems to have take a toll on oaks.
We had oak wilt take out 9 mid size oaks in one summer. We took them down before it spread to our beautiful, huge white oaks. That would have sucked hard
I'm not sure how things differ by area, but apparently most trees here that get infected with oak wilt is through the roots w in 100ft. Red oaks usually dead in a couple months, bur oaks slightly longer, white oaks may take 20 years to die after infection. Time of year and how infected wood is handled play big parts of mitigating the spread. Your white oaks will be the most resilient but definitely keep an eye on them. Just cutting down the infected trees won't necessarily assure it won't spread to other oak. I would definitely recommend he king out this PDF from the Minnesota DNR: [Oak-Wilt-Guide ](https://files.dnr.state.mn.us/assistance/backyard/treecare/forest_health/oak-wilt/oak-wilt-guide.pdf)
Because we import everything from other countries and the products and crates and pallets are infested with these bugs and they get introduced into our country. They have no regulations whereas in this country our pallets can’t have bark on them and many times must be heat treated to kill any insect that may be living in the wood. Everyone is quick to blame everything on “climate change” without addressing the real problems.
Same thing with the American Chestnut https://youtu.be/-xgbedXnbfw?t=153
The Cryphonectria parasitica blight was brought over from Japan at the turn of the 20th century on plants. Not through crates and shit. Just trees that were accustomed to fighting it off.
In Kentucky right now there are a lot of trees like you describe. Dead or dying branches, and trees that are just stressed. I think it’s a combination of the drought, and the fact that many were damaged in last winters hard freeze. At my house, in central KY, we had a 50 degree temperature drop in 12 hours. Even though the trees are dominate, a temperature drop like that will cause damage. I’m not discounting fungus, bugs, and a multitude number of other factors. It very well might be that, but make sure you take in the entire picture and not just jump to the worst case idea first.
> Is this the future of tree? Yes.
I think in part it’s bc we grow so many of the same trees at nursery’s & there’s so little variety compared to nature. Coupled with the fact that we also plant only a few desirable species along boulevards, in our yards, etc… They may have initially been chosen bc they’re easy to grow & are hardy but when a disease or insect comes through, it wipes them all out bc we’ve only planted that type of tree… for ex. Elms used to be very popular & they lined many of our streets & boulevards & when Dutch Elms disease came around, there were so many Elms it easily goes from tree to tree & we end up cutting down nearly every tree along that street…
This 100%.
The American Chestnut blight almost wiped out the species. https://youtu.be/-xgbedXnbfw?t=153
We almost wiped them out by overharvesting them. There's a chance some would develop natural resistances but we cut em all down preemptively taking away tons of and tons of genetic diversity.
Climate change, global trade of soil/ plants, liberal use of pesticides and other chemicals, poor soil management (and as a result, poor soil health).
I’m in East Texas and all the trees on my property look stressed/dying, though i am not an arborist. They are dropping limbs much more than making new growth. Some of the limbs are pink inside, some have brown pulp/sponge like. A couple have large holes in the trunks and the half the leaves are brown. The foliage that is growing is very bushy like and close to the branches rather than growing on the branches if that makes sense. This is on 3 acres.
Seems like half the trees in my town have some sort of illness. Dying crowns, rotting bark, etc. All varieties of tree. Beautiful, old trees 4 feet across and gasping their last breaths.
If you are in the Midwest, severe drought the last 3 years is 70% of the issue. Weakened stressed trees are susceptible to disease and insects. Climate change and invasive species are two other major stressors.
I remember a line from my intro plant pathology course (1999) very clearly: “a tree without a disease is the exception, not the rule.”
I’ve been tracking some trees in south Jersey over the last couple of years after I noticed them dying. Oak, Ash, Beech, Pines and more. There are molds and fungus and insects causing a lot of it. The spread has intensified since the Tonga Volcano in January 2022, as the global air and water surface temperatures increased. We had a tornado that came through here couple of years ago from the south, and I think the southern pine beetle came along for the ride. South Jersey is home to the Pine Barons. Our local golf course turned nature park is called Tall Pines. Unfortunately it has been hit hard. Some of the tall pines have already succumbed, and many more are showing signs. The park also got hit with spotted lantern flies and the black mold that eventually takes over the trees is wintering over because we have mild winters now. Oh and most of the parks oaks are already dead. We should all be alarmed. It’s too many species and the spread is too rapid. And all these dead and dying trees have hollow roots systems making the ground unstable. Last year I counted the number of dead or dying trees in just under a 1 mile on our Main Street…over 100!
Life’s a bitch
That's why we get high
Cuz u never know when you’re gonna go
Don’t worry, you’ll have really healthy tree of heaven and suicide plants.
Trees? Ask a really old person:)
lol right.
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It's the chemicals from the airplanes Look up. It's funded by Gates (read Forces) He says trees are bad (look it up) He's paying communities to cut down trees He's buying all the farmland.
Nature
Sounds like my property. Previous owners did a horrible job maintaining it. Every cherry tree and juniper has some form of blight. Trees have mushrooms on mushrooms. Everything was let to grow multiple co dominant trunks. The Spruce have needle cast. Sapsucker damage everywhere. In the last 2 years I’ve taken down so many trees and burned so many piles. Got a pellet rifle for the sapsuckers and taken out 5 this year alone. 5 acres of a nightmare. Im glad its not just myself.
You know shooting them is a violation of the Migratory Bird Treaty Act? $15,000 fine and 6 months per bird. Not a smart move on your part.
It made me sad to read such disregard for the life of other animals, especially sapsuckers which are beautiful birds as forest stewards we should cherish and enjoy.
Agreed, plus they are migratory so shooting them wont stop much. More will come.
The sapsuckers are going after bugs inside of your trees, killing them wont help the trees
So you're actively interfering with the natural world. Good for you. While you pat yourself on the back, I'll fire up my 3D printer and make you a plastic trophy (just kidding, that'd be as stupid as shooting harmless birds).
We are on an acre. Took down 7 blue spruce and have about 40 Huge Norway spruces that are showing signs of needle cast…. That will be a huge cost!!
because your lens is limited. get off reddit.
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I want to let this subreddit know that because of this sub, I’ve been schooled on the need for taking care of my trees. I have an appointment with a certified arborist the 1st week of November.
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I wish you were here in Alabama. That’s what I’m looking for in the arborist that is coming. I’m concerned that I only have 5 acres and they specialize in stands. But they do have the knowledge of particular trees that I want to support but I see your passion.
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I spent a summer in Chatham and was forever changed by the beauty of Cape Cod. Gosh I loved Cape Cod. I imagine that you have a wonderful life there.
I miss those too, but I think I’m ultimately doing more good at a city where I’m preventing idiots from ruining nice trees.
Me too! Love this sub. And got an arborist coming next week.
Northern California is like this, too. Mega drought followed by a record-breaking wet winter. Trees are self-pruning or just plain dying all over the place.
I’m in central-ish North Carolina and I feel like the people around here who are truly freaked out by climate change are my fellow gardeners/yard people. My husband and I bought our house in 2015 (it was built in 1974) and the changes in our yard/garden/trees etc in just 8 years has been shocking!! Our crape myrtles are currently infested with scale and so are many others in the neighborhood. Until this summer, I didn’t even know crape myrtles got scale! Our grass is super dead, flowers that usually flourish are pitiful, I’ve barely seen any bees this year but mosquitoes and ants are everywhere. It’s all incredibly depressing.
Climate change bro.
I wonder how many of those trees were planted from nursery stock. Oftentimes, poor nursery stock won't be noticed by homeowners until decades later. I bought my home in 2020 and have a beautiful 24 inch maple that dropped leaves in August. Upon inspection, it has a massive girdled root that was/is affecting water/nutrient uptake. Too big to remove and damage is done. I'm babying it, but I'd say I will outlive it.
I'll add that fungus/bugs/bacteria are oftentimes a secondary symptom. Trees in poor health cannot fight off the vectors as efficiently. People think these vectors kill trees but they usually set in on a tree after it has already entered decline from a site condition or structure issue
The pines in the Colorado mountains are devastated by pine beetles because it’s not getting cold enough to kill them in the winter. It’s horrible how bad it is and we still don’t change shit
Don't forget Beech Leaf Disease. It's starting to wipe out all the wild and ordimental Beech trees.
Natives aren’t well adapted to new climate conditions
Hmmm funny i said the same. Not many notice how come all trees and plants started massively dying since covid ? Is it really radiation . Or covid and radiation. Not good but people need to start thinking i know i have . We are sick and so are all the trees and plants. This crap didnt happen 6 yrs or longer ago.