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Cedar fencepost
Mountain Cedar (proper name - Ashe Juniper) is used throughout the southwest as fence post material because the resins preserve the wood for decades. Cedars are an environment problem now due to the lack of natural range fires which historically controlled their growth and their thirst for water. Cedars have overtaken pastures and made springs and seeps go dry with their continual spread. Historically this shrub was confined to rocky hillsides and canyons but now range throughout central and north Texas, as well as, southern Oklahoma.
Hamilton County, Texas - January 2004
Cedar fencepost
Mountain Cedar (proper name - Ashe Juniper) is used throughout the southwest as fence post material because the resins preserve the wood for decades. Cedars are an environment problem now due to the lack of natural range fires which historically controlled their growth and their thirst for water. Cedars have overtaken pastures and made springs and seeps go dry with their continual spread. Historically this shrub was confined to rocky hillsides and canyons but now range throughout central and north Texas, as well as, southern Oklahoma.
Hamilton County, Texas - January 2004