AUSTIN (KXAN) – A bill filed by Texas House Rep. Ellen Troxclair, (R-Austin), that would remove municipal protections for Ashe Juniper trees across Texas, was passed by the Texas House of ...

AUSTIN (KXAN) — For as long as people have lived in Central Texas, Ashe Juniper has been making them miserable. Though not technically cedar, Ashe Juniper trees have been referred to as cedar since ...

Editor's note: The story has been updated to reflect Wednesday's Texas House vote to advance HB 2239. The sole survivor of a grove of 14 trees planted half a millennia ago, Treaty Oak was historically ...

First thing to know about mountain cedar: they technically aren’t cedar trees at all. What we call “cedar trees” are a type of juniper tree -- specifically Ashe juniper -- named after William Willard ...

On Tuesday, the Texas Senate Local Government Committee, chaired by Sen. Paul Bettencourt, heard oral public testimony regarding House Bill 2239. Rep. Ellen Troxclair, R-Austin, filed the bill earlier ...

To the editor: Those who choose to ignore history will one day have to relive it. The proposal for Nevada and the U.S. Bureau of Land Management to tear out juniper and pinyon pine forests to make ...

In Texas, what is known as mountain cedar is actually Ashe juniper, making cedar fever especially irritating in the Hill Country west of Interstate 35 and the Killeen-Fort Hood area, where Ashe ...