Bromacil is a substituted uracil herbicide, 5-bromo-3-sec-butyl-6-methyluracil. Because it is readily absorbed through the root system of plants, bromacil usually is applied to the soil as an aqueous solution or suspension during or just before periods of active plnt growth. Until recently, bromacil was used as part of a vegetation control program along roadways at the Los Alamos National Laboratory. The prescribed method of application was to spray a four-foot wide strip of bromacil solution along the edges of roadways with a spray-bar. During the late spring and early summer of 1978, bromacil was determined to be the proximate cause of damage to numerous trees at substantial distances away from roadways at Los Alamos. This paper describes the investigation that was undertaken to determine the cause of the tree mortality.