Where is the rural legend?
Many folks in the area swear the junipers are sucking the moisture out of
the ground. Preventing other fauna from growing or proliferating. The
first two links proved that to be a fact. But actually disproved it, proved
that the moisture never got to the ground outside of this variety of juniper
tree due to the natural leaf diversion of water down its trunk. In essence,
the legend of whatever source was true.
There was a ban in Texas, not local, from cutting down the variety of jumper
noted in the last link a few years ago. Very shortlived though. Most
people paid no mind unless it affected them directly at the time.

"James Lee Johnson" wrote in message
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I think your post contains a couple of "urban myths", or perhaps "rural
myths".

"Lil' Dave" wrote:
Winning the fight against the prolific juniper trees here. Now the oaks
can
have some water. No, they're not cedar trees,

Correct, they are probably Ashe juniper trees.

although I do have some cedar on the property.

Oh, I doubt it, unless you or a previous owner planted them. Perhaps you
have some other species of juniper trees on the property?

For awhile, cutting of junipers was banned here due to this bird. But
they're still around.

I am aware that the endangered golden-cheeked warbler requires old-growth
stands of Ashe juniper to use the bark as nest building material.
However,
I am not aware of any all-out ban on the cutting of Ashe junipers in
central
Texas. Was this some rule in your neighborhood?

I have murdered several hundreds, if not thousands, of Ashe juniper trees.
However, I don't hate them. For an alternative perspective on the Ashe
juniper, see "Untwisting the Cedar, the myths & culture of the Ashe
juniper
tree" at: http://members.toast.net/juniper/

Unfortunately the website uses frames rather than hyperlinks, so I can't
specify a link directly to the article.

Come to think of it, a screen of female Ashe juniper trees might be a good
solution to your landscape challenge.

jjhnsn