Is an eastern white pine common in central Indiana?
Very widely planted as a fast privacy screen across central Indiana subdivisions and almost always on the wrong soil for it. It is also among the most road-salt-sensitive conifers there is, so any white pine within spray range of a salted road or the end of a drive browns on the road-facing side every single winter.
Why that matters for tree work
It gets planted constantly here and the soil does not want it — Purdue documents "white pine decline" specifically as an Indiana clay-soil disorder, where trees look fine for fifteen or twenty years and then quit. Most white pine calls are either that slow unexplained fade or a storm-broken top.
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