there has been a pine tree diseases. It probably is dead.. sorry. Live in Iowa and we have it all over..We Even have state law that wood from others states may not be brought in.

Is it white pine? They are typically short-lived here in GA.

That said, Mary R. is correct ...it is dead....even if we can't figure out what caused the problem.

I'm in Pennsylvania, my pine tree out front looks just like that, it's been dying from the ground up...we keep removing lower branches, but the higher up ones continue to turn brown. :( Seems like it's a goner.

could be from beetles, remnants of acid rain in you're in NY...check with your local farm cooperative office. Should be listed by the county you live in and see what they can tell you. They will often come out to check it out for you

Yep, sure looks like it's suffered major cardiac arrest! Beyond help - so if you have a fireplace now you've got firewood!!

It looks like it's got borer beetles....

Definitely beetle kill. Cut it down and burn it.

I agree ~~ its a bark beetle. They truly can cause havoc in Pines.

Another thing that is typical for pine trees (that causes death) is shear age. Pine trees have a primary tap root that grow downward until they hit rock. When that happens the tree dies - nothing can be done at that point. (At least that is what I was told when I had pine trees in Georgia die unexpectedly.)

Not so sure I buy that one Charles - I grew up in NY and before acid rain we had pines 100s of years old in the woods. There maybe some truth to the tap root hitting bedrock but most of what was in my area was hitting shale deposits and they lived on.

I have had a ton of pines die from beetle kill This is beetle kill.

There is one in the south called the Powder Post Beetle, they are a problem for Pines but if caught early can be sprayed...but there is a new one that AG officials are actually tracking the progression and begging people to participate in taking measures to hold them at bay called the Emerald Beetle...After seeing them on my spruce and it's decline I cut it down...I sure hated to lose that tree...BUT it was 20 years old and my hubby decided to "limb it up" and left the cuts untreated and ...»

Yes, very bad here. Maybe they have migrated north, but they took out a lot of oaks and other harwoods, not as fast as that, but you probably noticed limbs dying from the bottom up some time ago. Goodbye nice tree. The extension service here stated that unless you hire an arborist who can try expensive little tricks, you stood a chance, but not much. Best to have it cut down, poor old thing.