I love ‘em. They’re beautiful and can grow on poor sites. The wood looks and smells wonderful. I know they wipe out the apple, but apple isn’t native. I planted one near my front door and appreciate it every day.
Thank you very much for this video and the information shared about this tree. Good images and illustrations. Truly helpful in understanding its characteristics and very interesting.
I have 17 acres in Missouri in an old forest that’s been left unmanaged. There are many red cedars on my property and I absolutely love them. I’m currently removing small understory saplings of various types to allow my cedars to spread out. I’ve also cut away many if the lower branches because of the overcrowding. Its so beautiful against the backdrop of our pond. So much wildlife in and among our trees.
As eastern and western red cedar are not cedars, but junipers, they share characteristics with other junipers. While they provide organic matter to the soil around them their "leaves" tend to not break down into humus and act as a deterant to grasses. Some birds and squirrels use the bark for nesting. The wood is brittle so that they don't do well ice buildup in the winter.
The birds brought me 9 of these via there droppings on my little half acre property here near the lower Kaskaskia river near Baldwin, Illinois. I love them, they’re so beautiful. It’s been amazing how they have been surviving in the under story and covered beneath some shrubs on my property, I think they are being sustained by an arbuscular mycorrhizal root network. Thank you for the information, this is very interesting. I want to visit Minnesota, in so thankful that you people haven’t let people devour your forest like so much of the world. Please keep it beautiful and rewild the places that man has destroyed, for the sake of all mankind. Peace and blessings to you
Your welcome to visit Minnesota anytime. I think you will like the diversity in our various biomes and landscapes. www.dnr.state.mn.us/biomes/index.html Eastern Red Cedar is native to MN but can cause problems in native grass and forbs, prairie or restoration plantings. Enjoy your property.
Look im a landowner in south east Iowa. I have sheared 20 acres and just got done mulching 20 acres this year. You have provided markets for potential use and it is a beautiful wood, but my question is: if theres a demand why aren't loggers knocking on my door for cedar? I have had 3 different foresters telling me "cedars are not worth your time". Over the past 10 years of trying to find a market for a decent price Ive come to the conclusion cedars have a market but there is such a huge supply the price is not worth your time. Im interested in oak management, prairie management, oak savanna not trying to make a few bucks off a cedar tree. Only good market i have heard of is for slickback cedars. Size of a steering wheel and clean no branches the first 12'. All I have is shrubby cedars. I have 5 that meet that requirement out of 40 acres. Ill keep them, but all i had was a barren wasteland for no turkey broods, no fawns, no quail habitat for a long period of time. If theres a place with solid numbers you have my attention, but were losing valuable habitat and eastern red cedars diminish habitat return and future oak-hickory than its worth.
I love ‘em. They’re beautiful and can grow on poor sites. The wood looks and smells wonderful. I know they wipe out the apple, but apple isn’t native. I planted one near my front door and appreciate it every day.
Thank you very much for this video and the information shared about this tree. Good images and illustrations. Truly helpful in understanding its characteristics and very interesting.
Charcoal of Eastern Red Cedar is very useful for making black powder. 🤠🧨
I have 17 acres in Missouri in an old forest that’s been left unmanaged. There are many red cedars on my property and I absolutely love them. I’m currently removing small understory saplings of various types to allow my cedars to spread out. I’ve also cut away many if the lower branches because of the overcrowding. Its so beautiful against the backdrop of our pond. So much wildlife in and among our trees.
As eastern and western red cedar are not cedars, but junipers, they share characteristics with other junipers. While they provide organic matter to the soil around them their "leaves" tend to not break down into humus and act as a deterant to grasses. Some birds and squirrels use the bark for nesting. The wood is brittle so that they don't do well ice buildup in the winter.
Thank you for doing this
The birds brought me 9 of these via there droppings on my little half acre property here near the lower Kaskaskia river near Baldwin, Illinois. I love them, they’re so beautiful. It’s been amazing how they have been surviving in the under story and covered beneath some shrubs on my property, I think they are being sustained by an arbuscular mycorrhizal root network.
Thank you for the information, this is very interesting. I want to visit Minnesota, in so thankful that you people haven’t let people devour your forest like so much of the world. Please keep it beautiful and rewild the places that man has destroyed, for the sake of all mankind.
Peace and blessings to you
Your welcome to visit Minnesota anytime. I think you will like the diversity in our various biomes and landscapes. www.dnr.state.mn.us/biomes/index.html Eastern Red Cedar is native to MN but can cause problems in native grass and forbs, prairie or restoration plantings. Enjoy your property.
Look im a landowner in south east Iowa. I have sheared 20 acres and just got done mulching 20 acres this year. You have provided markets for potential use and it is a beautiful wood, but my question is: if theres a demand why aren't loggers knocking on my door for cedar? I have had 3 different foresters telling me "cedars are not worth your time". Over the past 10 years of trying to find a market for a decent price Ive come to the conclusion cedars have a market but there is such a huge supply the price is not worth your time. Im interested in oak management, prairie management, oak savanna not trying to make a few bucks off a cedar tree.
Only good market i have heard of is for slickback cedars. Size of a steering wheel and clean no branches the first 12'. All I have is shrubby cedars. I have 5 that meet that requirement out of 40 acres. Ill keep them, but all i had was a barren wasteland for no turkey broods, no fawns, no quail habitat for a long period of time. If theres a place with solid numbers you have my attention, but were losing valuable habitat and eastern red cedars diminish habitat return and future oak-hickory than its worth.
If you don't like it, make it into tongue and groove flooring and sell it to me.
That’s juniper…it has juniper berries.
Why is it called cedar?
It, and other American evergreens, reminded Europeans of the aromatic Cedars of Lebanon and other afroeurasian Cedrus species
Its a gas can with roots
When I have a brush pile to burn I like to put a red cedar at the bottom of the pile. You light the cedar and stand back.
@@getintothewildwithjeffruma8777you mean juniper…this is not true cedar