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- noun US Alternative spelling of
red cedar .
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Examples
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The eastern redcedar is the cockroach of the tree world.
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The eastern redcedar is the cockroach of the tree world.
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Now if by "healthy ecosystem" you mean a system in which fire and rotational grazing is practiced constantly then yes, it does tend to be somewhat controlled, but that's extremely labor-intensive work and trust me, an eastern redcedar will sprout in a beautiful, healthy pristine patch of short or midgrass prairie just as quickly as it will an eroded gully.
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One: eastern redcedar doesn't sprout from a stump like, say, locust.
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Now if by "healthy ecosystem" you mean a system in which fire and rotational grazing is practiced constantly then yes, it does tend to be somewhat controlled, but that's extremely labor-intensive work and trust me, an eastern redcedar will sprout in a beautiful, healthy pristine patch of short or midgrass prairie just as quickly as it will an eroded gully.
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I'll leave the debate over logging to others, however the rise of the eastern redcedar has absolutely nothing to do with logging.
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The state of Oklahoma alone loses 760 acres of native prairie and riparian area - over one square mile - every single day to the eastern redcedar invasion.
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I'll leave the debate over logging to others, however the rise of the eastern redcedar has absolutely nothing to do with logging.
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The state of Oklahoma alone loses 760 acres of native prairie and riparian area - over one square mile - every single day to the eastern redcedar invasion.
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One: eastern redcedar doesn't sprout from a stump like, say, locust.
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