Ag News Wire By Gary Wyatt, an agroforestry educator University of Minnesota Extension Conifers are planted as shelterbelts, windbreaks, living snow fences and winter wildlife thermal cover on ...

these are commonly referred to as “cedar trees,” even though they strictly speaking aren’t cedars. All of these tree are conifers – meaning they reproduce via pine cones. They are well adapted to ...

The eastern red cedar (Juniperus virginicum) is an evergreen conifer common to our region. It does well in sandy, gravely, ...