https://www.dnr.state.mn.us/trees/northern-white-cedar.html

https://extension.umn.edu/managing-woodlands/managing-northern-white-cedar-forests

Was the bark damaged on those branches? by squirrels or mice? The rest of the tree looks healthy. Could there have been chemical drift from a weed and feed product? That kind of bleaching looks more like a chemical exposure than like a disease.

There really isn’t anything to be done except to cut off the yellow branches if they turn brown and die. Once they are brittle there’s no point in keeping them. They won’t be replaced but losing them won’t hurt the tree.



It is a fun project for kids. My daughters became our Christmas tree one year when it outgrew it’s site. We had a very shady lot and no good place for it.