Dead Cedar trees are a good thing
Cedar trees are water hawgs
that is why the “cedar choppers” are always trying to clear them out in the hill country.
Those German settlers knew they drank too much water and didn’t provide much of anything but fence posts.
I think Horseshoe Bay is planning to cut every cedar under a 6” diameter and all multiple stemmed cedars in the city.
One ranch about 5 or 6 miles NW of us cut ever cedar on a 700 - 800 acre area. Springs that had not run in years came back.