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Charlie[_1_] · 10-10-2005, 02:41 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by MMarks

On Wed, 05 Oct 2005 23:18:49 GMT, "James Lee Johnson"
wrote:

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.

Here you go:
http://members.toast.net/juniper/Ashe%20juniper.html

My grandpa was a cedar-chopper, and hauled posts from Burnet to Fredricksburg. Back about 80-90 years ago, that was a scorned profession. I don't know if hed be pleased or dismayed if he knew there was a celebration of that profession today. In the family, we knew it as "buckhorn juniper" due to the way the dead and bleached branches looked.