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Archive Home > 2008 > September > 22 > Cutting junipers to gain water is no mirage, a study shows

Cutting junipers to gain water is no mirage, a study shows

Tree removal makes biggest impact when rain is scarcest

By Kate Ramsayer / The Bulletin
September 22, 2008

When John and Lynne Breese moved back to his family’s ranch outside of Prineville in the late 1980s, they heard stories of old springs on the property that had all dried up.

When they started cutting Western junipers that had grown around the ranch since it was homesteaded, though, the....

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