Dead Cedar According to our arborist, he can’t keep up with the demand he gets from people wanting dead trees taken down on private property. I think the demise of these four go back to the more severe drought of 2015. In 2015 we had a very dry winter followed by our normally dry summer. That brought our normally high water table down substantially. The last couple winters have been wetter than normal but the dry season has started earlier and lasted longer. This year we had