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FeatherQuilt1988 In reply to mintdr [2018-03-05 11:54:18 +0000 UTC]

Yeah, I've seen similar things done when trees are too close to power lines, so the road crews come and cut off the branches that were touching the cables... but as you say, those trees are still alive and tend to still be able to grow around them... I'm afraid these seemed more completely dead, as their trunks were all bleached (and I remember seeing them leafless when we drove past them earlier last year on this same road, in the middle of summer).

It's indeed sad... and also so puzzling... I don't think someone would have poisoned the trees on purpose, because if they had wanted to clear the trees away from the field, they would have just cut them down, instead of leaving them standing like this. All I can figure out is that somehow the trees got poisoned by accident (through pesticides in the field or somesuch--maybe the crop-dusters flew too close to this treeline without realizing it), or else maybe they had some sort of strange disease that spread through their root systems, all down the line....

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mintdr In reply to FeatherQuilt1988 [2018-03-23 10:26:58 +0000 UTC]

This is really so sad... Especially if it was just an accident. Poisoning the trees purposefully might probably be justified if they were already starting to get dry from the inside and could collapse on people, so they had to be tended like that to exclude any possiblity of danger. But yes, in this case the trees would most likely have been cut down... So sad that it must be an accident or a disease. I hope that probably somewhere inside there is still a little living tissue that could grow again over the years

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FeatherQuilt1988 In reply to mintdr [2018-03-31 12:30:37 +0000 UTC]

Awww, that would be so nice. Or at the very least, it would be neat if some other plants could start growing over the trees and flourishing in their place too, like moss and ivy....

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mintdr In reply to FeatherQuilt1988 [2018-04-15 12:24:34 +0000 UTC]

Agree Moss and ivy are nice too! And maybe the dead trees might become a part of the soil eventually and enrich it, so that more trees might grow in their place

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FeatherQuilt1988 In reply to mintdr [2018-04-24 16:52:57 +0000 UTC]

Yes, I hope so too! Nature is beautiful, and so often it finds a way to grow back whenever it's given the chance.

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FeatherQuilt1988 In reply to Vulcangirl327 [2018-02-15 14:40:58 +0000 UTC]

Yeah... it was honestly kind of sad to me, too (I love trees so much ), but yes, it was indeed cool in a way, such an interesting and unusual formation (these were really dead trees, mind you, not just leafless because of the winter)--I still don't quite understand what would have caused every single tree in a weird single row like this to die at the same time. Very strange, and indeed perhaps spooky too... maybe even some Doctor Who episode material!...

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FeatherQuilt1988 In reply to GlassOrchiid [2018-02-05 19:13:15 +0000 UTC]

Yeah, it really was... I found it so puzzling and sad both... are there any tree diseases that are "contagious," passing down to other trees in a close row? That was all I could imagine could have caused it, and I just wondered, since you study plants....

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GlassOrchiid In reply to FeatherQuilt1988 [2018-03-06 15:03:23 +0000 UTC]

Yeah disease and parasites can spread from tree to tree like that. :[

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