The ecosystem of the Great Plains is in deep trouble from an invader, that invader just 100 years ago was a welcome sight to the prairies with no trees.
I was reading about buffalo, what they eat, and learned that they tend to destroy saplings, which protects the grasses they live on. Now I see why the Satanists killed all of the buffalo: they protected the plains and kept everything fertile and green.
Yes that and fire kept the plains the plains. The crazy part on cedar trees is the US Government has a program that encourages and sells cedar seedlings for farmers/ranchers to plant. That government pays farmers/ranchers to remove them. Now they are targeting North Dakota with these menaces. Nebraska is full of these trees. One would think the state resource people would talk to each other and Nebraska people would tell North Dakota DON’T DO IT! Many places in the plains are turning to cedar forests.
China has been planting a lot of evergreens, but the experts also recognize the importance of grasslands -- and the Chinese government isn't schizophrenic.
I believe the BLM is intentionally trying to destroy the environment. They spent millions erradicating hemp, which absorbs some of the heavy metals the military has been spraying all over the country to turn us into robots. They should have been increasing the buffalo instead.
I am so glad that someone is taking these nuisances out!
I can offer you a few more reasons to burn the cedars.
1. Ticks love cedars, because they're the right height to allow a tick to brush off on a deer or another large ruminant, and hitch a ride. The last thing we need is more ticks--and more tick-borne diseases.
2. Wildfires really love those cedars. The wildfires a few years ago absolutely devastated an entire area up on the rim of the Wyoming plateau in the panhandle (one of my uncles ranches in the top left corner). The fires were so bad because those cedars provided so much fuel. If the cedars hadn't been there (or in such numbers), the fires would have been a lot less damaging.
They are a menace. You for the most part do not see you have a problem until you start seeing them through the grass. they hide out for a few years building a root system and being shorter than the grass then all of a sudden thing spring up above the grass and you have a whole pasture full. Look at the roadsides outside of Omaha they are rampant. The city, the state - nobody is cutting them down. Cutting is time and equipment intense. You can spend 20k, 30k 50k on up for the equipment to cut them once they are 3 feet tall. We spent a week clearing out 5 acres as they were so think they would not burn. Fire is the cheapest way, you can burn more in 5 minutes than you can cut in a week.
I was reading about buffalo, what they eat, and learned that they tend to destroy saplings, which protects the grasses they live on. Now I see why the Satanists killed all of the buffalo: they protected the plains and kept everything fertile and green.
Yes that and fire kept the plains the plains. The crazy part on cedar trees is the US Government has a program that encourages and sells cedar seedlings for farmers/ranchers to plant. That government pays farmers/ranchers to remove them. Now they are targeting North Dakota with these menaces. Nebraska is full of these trees. One would think the state resource people would talk to each other and Nebraska people would tell North Dakota DON’T DO IT! Many places in the plains are turning to cedar forests.
China has been planting a lot of evergreens, but the experts also recognize the importance of grasslands -- and the Chinese government isn't schizophrenic.
I believe the BLM is intentionally trying to destroy the environment. They spent millions erradicating hemp, which absorbs some of the heavy metals the military has been spraying all over the country to turn us into robots. They should have been increasing the buffalo instead.
I am so glad that someone is taking these nuisances out!
I can offer you a few more reasons to burn the cedars.
1. Ticks love cedars, because they're the right height to allow a tick to brush off on a deer or another large ruminant, and hitch a ride. The last thing we need is more ticks--and more tick-borne diseases.
2. Wildfires really love those cedars. The wildfires a few years ago absolutely devastated an entire area up on the rim of the Wyoming plateau in the panhandle (one of my uncles ranches in the top left corner). The fires were so bad because those cedars provided so much fuel. If the cedars hadn't been there (or in such numbers), the fires would have been a lot less damaging.
Well, at least it makes for good cedar chests and firewood! I had no idea how extensive the damage was until I looked it up on AI. Take a gander at this. https://www.perplexity.ai/search/how-destructive-are-cedar-tree-tXiMuJ0ES0m7RUtvvQTFDA#0
They are a menace. You for the most part do not see you have a problem until you start seeing them through the grass. they hide out for a few years building a root system and being shorter than the grass then all of a sudden thing spring up above the grass and you have a whole pasture full. Look at the roadsides outside of Omaha they are rampant. The city, the state - nobody is cutting them down. Cutting is time and equipment intense. You can spend 20k, 30k 50k on up for the equipment to cut them once they are 3 feet tall. We spent a week clearing out 5 acres as they were so think they would not burn. Fire is the cheapest way, you can burn more in 5 minutes than you can cut in a week.