‘Don’t panic’: A&M Forest Service says not to fret over dead-looking trees - KLTV

“We were originally worried about tree breakage, the ice breaking the trees off, we didn’t see any of that and we also didn’t see any of the discoloration, three days or so after we flew for the first time, we started noticing the discoloration so we flew again and we kind of mapped out and looked at where this discoloration was occurring and we decided that we’d look at the trees and kind of figured out that what happened is the needles froze and thankfully the trees kind of self-repair themselves and they wall that damage off, they drop the needles, and then they will refoliate with new needles,” Smith said.