Anyone have any idea what is causing this? I've looked it up and found that at least for younger saplings. Some Browning can be normal in early spring, but none of the images had nearly this much Brown. There is barely any green left among the needles.
This looks dead. It’s normal to have some browning on the edges over winter but this isn’t what that looks like. Could be a drainage issue, could be some sort of infection, hard to say without knowing more. When you bend the branches do the bend or crumble and snap?