quaddin
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Funny thing my pines appear to have same problem over last 10 years.
Ya Mountain Pine Beetle. 7 years ago I did not have a dead tree on the place, now all the pine is dead. Well about 90% of it any way. Our forest up here have seen an epidemic. We have hundreds of thousands of square miles of dead pine.
Loggers can't get it out of the bush fast enough. Once it dies it has a shelf life before it is no good for making lumber. Checks and cracks to bad. Once that happens it is pretty much useless except for chips or making wood pellets.