I don’t remember that program, but that doesn’t mean it didn’t happen. The Oklahoma Ag Dept (I think; it could be ODWC) has (or had) a cedar eradication program.
I kind of remember a program like that, but they probably had to drop it because child molesters got a splinter every now and then. But Cedars are nothing but a fire bomb, one day, we will pay the penalty for letting them get out of control.
The Oklahoma Conservation Commission has a program going on now to fight cedars.
They just hired several technicians and are in the process of buying equipment to put them to work.
As a landowner, I'm the worst nightmare of red cedar.
When hunting pheasants back in the day when there were pheasants, the rule on the hunt across a pasture was that if you see a red cedar, you folded it over with the boot and shot it off at the base. Cedar's will not sprout back if removed below the lowest limb.
@DRC458 and I spent one afternoon in a field shooting around 75 or so to clear out a pasture when they were starting with some #2 lead shot. The three or four that were too big got some tractor action later to clean it up.
When hunting pheasants back in the day when there were pheasants, the rule on the hunt across a pasture was that if you see a red cedar, you folded it over with the boot and shot it off at the base. Cedar's will not sprout back if removed below the lowest limb.
@DRC458 and I spent one afternoon in a field shooting around 75 or so to clear out a pasture when they were starting with some #2 lead shot. The three or four that were too big got some tractor action later to clean it up.
A good hot burn will kill cedars.
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