Can we not eradicate Cedar Trees?

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GlockPride

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I thought the state used to have a program that utilized prisoners to help control the cedar problem? Or am I imagining it? I thought they paid prisoners $3/tree or something like that.
 

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The problem with that is your nicely controlled fence line trees make baby trees for miles around for everyone else.


These are up in age and no pollinating as I have owned it for a couple years. I “ studied up” on them years ago, most stop pollinating at around 75 years old. Kinda like us Humans, we fire blanks eventually. All the land around them for quite aways has no Cedars.

They will still light off, these has and lived. They get old they get tough. When they get old their cellular structure changes and the become very fire resistant as well.
 

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I like to use smaller ones as rails for stacking firewood since they're pretty resistant to rotting (and free). Turkeys do not like them as they can't roost in them and they'll crowd out suitable roosting trees. I have quite a few large ones that I could cut down, but I don't know what I'd do with them once they're down.
 

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In the permaculture world we say: “Unused resources are pollution, and pollution is an unused resource.”

It sounds like we have a pioneer plant that produces a lot of biomass and has a myriad of uses. Take a torch to the ones you don’t want, use the ones you can.
 

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