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Little Blitzen Steens trailhead.BLM War on cooling carbon sequestering wildlife habitat Western Junipers. Trees clearcut/piled/burned. Now a blistering hot hostile cheatgrass tinder box. They hate trees.
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This is horrendous. Junipers can live to be thousands of years old. I can understand culling younger trees, but leave the old growth. obviously they serve an ecological purpose. Some of the ones near where I used to camp in the Ochoco's just north of here were magnificent.

@skydogsanctuary I’m convinced their policies are designed to create massive wildfires. Just look at what they do and it’s hard to come up with a different conclusion.

Junipers burn like torches and actually spread fire. Where I live, they are a main cause of fires spreading to the canopy (taller pine trees.) Once fire gets into the canopy, there's not much to stop it from spreading. Hence, they are removed in fire hazard mitigation grants.

Junipers consume a lot of water meaning nothing else can grow nearby in arid regions

Nothing but cheatgrass. Which means the area is very prone to fire now.

Yup. And, when you do find the single tree they leave behind, it's used as a cattle toilet.

Why is there a program to clear cut Junipers like that?

With the caveat that this summer is unusually dry, these fuels treatment projects are useless as fire holding features. Like the fire will burn to the end of them and then stop when it hits the PJ stand.

@lightsout4bird Ugh, that is awful

Why? Cause fire..wild horses lea and they don't have the expensive roundups and slaughter trucks taking them to be sold for meat across the 2 country borders. Clare us a Wild Horse Rescuer. Skydog and others will have the only remaining wild hordes in less than 5 yrs. Extinction.

We need to stop these people. This is ridiculous. Wtf.

Whoever that kooky lady is on the video obviously knows nothing about fires; junipers are like matchsticks. They are explosively flammable. They also suck up tremendous amounts of water from the landscape. Not saying cheatgrass is ideal either but woody plant encroachment due to fire suppression is a real thing.

I never knew how entitled I was while living in Tucson. Now I'm on the western slope and live among the endless sea of weeds due to farming. Cheatgrass is just one of many invasives I deal with daily.
