Harry Mattison reports:

Harvard planted approximately 150 street trees on Western Avenue in 2007 and it is amazing how many of them are now dead or far from flourishing. ...

Earlier:
The dying trees of South Boston.

Penny Cherubino posts a photo of an ailing elm tree at Mass. Ave. and Commonwealth Ave. that appears to have the classic signs of the killer fungus spread by beetles.

Earlier:
The dying trees of South Boston.

Susan Labandibar is seeing a lot of dead and dying trees these days and wonders why:

... Young trees, even trees over twenty years old, are dying at an incredible rate. What does the Parks Department think? It looks like most of the street trees they are planting are not surviving. ...

With a Google map showing the location of all the dead trees on her dog-walking route.

Candelaria Silva reports that Grow Boston Greener will be giving away trees to Bostonians with a place to plant them in May:

... The trees are 6-8' tall and come in containers. GBG asks each new tree steward to fill out a site evaluation form which is a brief survey of the growing conditions specific to your yard area so staff can help match the right tree to the right place. Trees need to be planted within a week of receipt and watered once a week for two full growing seasons (April through October) to establish well and grow into the future. ...

Residents surround willow tree to keep it from being cut down.

For the past several weeks, there's been this amazing brain-like fungus growing on the side of a tree on the VFW Parkway southbound, just past LaGrange. Every time I drove past, I thought it would make a great photo and vowed to stop next time. This morning, around 9:30, I saw the brain and vowed to stop on my way back (from Millennium Park). Around 10:30, I did - only to discover that in the interim, a vegetarian zombie (what else could it be?) had ripped the brain to shreds:

That'll teach me to put things off, right?

So before you start looking for a smelly cat, see if there are any ailanthus trees around.

It was nice to see some new trees planted across from Jamaica Pond this morning. They are just beside the recently refurbished wall.

I'd give them about 50 years.

Then they'll have to be cut down, after their roots destroy the wall again, and the wall be need to be restored.

Then new trees will be planted.

The cycle of life.

Some Assembly Required noticed today that crews along Huntington Avenue near the Mass. College of Art were replacing seemingly healthy trees with new seemingly health trees, and he wonders why.

Maybe Steven "I came home the other day to find out all my furniture had been stolen and replaced with an exact replica" Wright is now in charge of tree plantings in Boston?

... at the corner of Orchard and Beech Streets, in North Cambridge. It blocked half of Beech Street and a little bit of Orchard.

I don't know when it fell, but I saw it around 11:30 tonight. For some reason, five orange traffic cones were sitting on the sidewalk nearby, so I put them up all around the fallen tree. Maybe that will stop someone from running into it tonight.

If you see other fallen trees, post them as comments here.