Homeowners urged to get rid of junipers
Junk the Junipers is a Nevada Wildfire Awareness Month event designed to get people to rid their yards of this highly flammable plant.
The Nevada Division of Forestry is hosting Junk the Junipers on May 16 from 8am-1pm at the division’s office, 885 Eastlake Blvd. in Washoe Valley. A second event will be hosted by the Bureau of Land Management and Truckee Meadows Fire Protection District on May 23 at the Silver Lake Fire Station, 11525 Red Rock Road, Reno. Residents are encouraged to bring their junipers, pines, rabbitbrush, sagebrush and other woody vegetation to be chipped for free.
Vegetation chipped at the event will be used as mulch in various locations. Materials that will not be accepted for chipping are: construction lumber, hazardous materials, lawn clippings, sod, dirt-infested vegetation and tree stumps or limbs greater than 8 inches in diameter.
For more information, contact Sonya Sistare at sistares@unce.unr.edu or 775.336.0271.
I hope this only applies to K-Mart variety juniper bushes and not our native juniper trees which are a natural component of the forests around Lake Tahoe. Our beautiful native trees are fire resistant and drought tolerant, and can live for many hundreds of years if left alone.
Yes, Tree Hugger, many if not all of the Juniper trees are protected from being cut down. They should probably clarify that in their marketing of this project.
A friend of mine had Lake Valley Fire over to assess fire danger at his house. He has some larges size K Mart junipers next to his house. He was told to remove them as they easily combust. To test the theory he broke off a piece of the branch, walked it inside and laid it on his gas burner on his stove. Wouldn’t ignite. Just sayin’
I don’t want to hike this thread, but male junipers are also highly allergenic. See “Allergy-Free Gardening” by Thomas Leo Ogren, 2000.
A piece of wood would not ignite when placed on a gas burner???? I really have a problem with this story….just sayin.
Did your buddy bother to turn the gas on?
Go talk to a fireman.