Cedar Removal and the Impact to Deer Herds

[lovemylegacy]

What is the prevailing wisdom on the effects of cedar removal from property with regards to whitetail numbers, management and quality?

Discuss.

You will have untold amount of natural browse if you cut them down. You could leave a few cedars if it makes you feel better, but the browse is the better bet. If you have a whole forest of cedars, there will be nothing but cedars. They shade out all light so nothing else grows there. A few are ok, but ya gotta keep them under control.

[TxAg]

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[whackem and stackem]

To me it depends on what part of the country it is in. On a big ranch I had in KS, the cedar was the majority of the cover with a few cottonwoods in the draws. After the removal of the majority of the cedar, prescribed burns, the majority of the mature bucks that called that place home have left. It is now majority pasture with lots of cows. The two don't mix with mature bucks being lack of cover and lots of cows.

[Tims]

Reduce the red bloom.
4" for fence post. Larger for corner post.

[bgleaton]

If you don’t want the look of the dead cedars laying down you could conduct a prescribed burn a couple years after letting them lay.

[Longue Carabine]

Biologists are beginning to take a different perspective on juniper. It is beginning to gain recognition as an intermediate stage of repair for the landscape.

https://www.edwardsaquifer.net/brush.html