Rep. Ellen Troxclair, R-Austin, filed the bill earlier this year to limit municipal interference in the private removal of Ashe juniper trees.

It's not really cedar-related and doesn’t typically come with a fever. It’s triggered when the male Ashe juniper trees get excited to spread their pollen to the female Ashe juniper trees.

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 ...

Jane Brown, holds a cutting from a male Ashe juniper or mountain cedar tree in 2001 in Fredericksburg. Cedar fever is gearing up across Texas but Native Americans found many medicinal uses for the ...

Blame the trees. Cedar fever has returned. In Texas, Ashe juniper trees, also known as mountain cedars, are the culprit behind the allergy condition, according to the Texas A&M Forest Service.

Removing juniper trees from the western side of Deschutes County, where groundwater levels are deep and the volcanic rock is permeable, may not conserve much water at all, he said.

Ashe juniper trees locked and loaded and ready to release their pollen into the air. It’s this pollen that causes the dreaded cedar fever every winter across Texas.