Nearly 1200 sheesham or tali trees, as commonly known, have dried up over the past two years in Dehra sub-division of Kangra diwstrict. Highly placed sources in the Forest Department revealed that this year itself over 900 trees had dried up. Though the problem has been persisting during these years, the exact reason for the mass destruction of trees along the 35 km Kangra-Jwalamukhi highway is not know. the authorities attribute it to water-logging of fields.