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Archive Home > 2006 > July > 01 > Study hints thinning junipers restores natural water flow

Study hints thinning junipers restores natural water flow

OSU scientists study junipers' effect on two watersheds

By Kate Ramsayer / The Bulletin
July 1, 2006

BROTHERS - Junipers fill a remote, dry valley on the east side of a High Desert ridge near Brothers, stretching as high as 50 feet in the air and sometimes growing so thick that their flaky branches touch.

But on the west side of the ridge, next to nothing is standing. Acres of trees are cut,....

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