Back when Kelly Roberts was a kid during the 1970s, her family would scout their northeastern Oklahoma pasture every year, looking for the perfect eastern redcedar for their Christmas tree. “I ...

Q: My daughter in East Texas has several red cedars in the field next to her house. When we were visiting at Christmas, two of them were rusty colored all over.

An over-population of Eastern red cedar trees is like a cancer to the rangeland—aggressive, widespread and time-consuming to eradicate. Landowners in the High Plains have fought these ...

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A tree along the lake's banks and beyond helped fuel those fires – the Eastern Red Cedar. The Easter Red Cedar is filled with volatile oils that make it ignite and burn easily.

This legislation, designed to eradicate cedar trees in the state, was authored by Oklahoma Rep. Mike Dobrinski, and proposed a $3.2 million pilot program for cedar tree removal.

Tree removal efforts Earlier this year the Oklahoma legislature passed a redcedar removal bill and set aside $3.2 million to fund the effort after hearing from concerned residents, including Roberts.