Eastern red cedar or Juniperus virginiana is not a true cedar. It is a juniper and the most widely distributed native conifer in the eastern United States. Redcedar (red and cedar can be spelled ...

Oklahoma State University researchers believe eastern redcedar trees are helping lone star ticks spread across the state and ...

LINCOLN, Neb. — Nebraska lawmakers are looking for new ways to fight a fast-spreading tree species that crowds out other plants, destroys valuable ranchland and threatens the Great Plains from Texas ...

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 encroaching ...

A lone eastern red cedar grows on the northern border of our property where it sprouted several years ago. Every year I pull cedar sprouts as I weed the garden and the flowerbeds, and my husband mows ...

It's estimated about 462 million Eastern red cedar trees are spread across Oklahoma, which costs the state nearly that much in dollars a year in catastrophic wildfires and the loss of range and ...

Many Americans continue the European tradition of the Christmas tree. In Europe, people used spruces and firs to decorate their homes. This week on Discover Nature we look for another Missouri ...

OKLAHOMA CITY – It may not seem like much in the rarefied air of the $787 billion Recovery Act, but $100,000 is still good money, and that’s how much the state is getting in stimulus funding to help ...

Question: I would love to have a live B&B or container tree for a Christmas tree, then plant it in the ground after Christmas. Would a Eastern Cedar survive if I brought it inside for a couple of ...

Fruit still is available on red cedar trees, and flocks of cedar waxwings are on the lookout. They eat a variety of winter fruits, such as the small crabapples in our yards, but seem to be especially ...

A cedar waxwing forages for food on the branch of an Eastern red-cedar tree in Jefferson City. Cedar waxwings earn their name for their affinity for the fruits of Eastern red-cedar trees. Over the ...