Are there many juniper trees in central and north Idaho?

[oregonwoodsmoke]

Originally Posted by A.McClure

...... near the mountains away from all the rain of the coast, ......

I know that people with juniper allergies really suffer during juniper pollen season. I even benefited from it when my neighbor bought 3 cords of juniper firewood and had a reaction to the smoke, so I ended up with their firewood. Juniper makes excellent firewood, by the way,

Here's your issue, OP. You don't want rain and you don't want juniper. But you can tell how many inches of rain a place gets by the type of wild tree that grows there. You don't like rain and neither does the wild growing juniper. So, dry places in the Pacific Northwest have juniper growing.

If you find a place where the wild trees are pine, then there is enough rain to keep the pine trees happy and too much rain for the juniper. Fir trees appear to want even more rain and there won't be juniper growing among the fir trees.

I suspect that if you have severe allergies, that domestic juniper might bother you, and juniper is extensively used for landscaping. If that is the case, then you would need to actually drive around and look at gardens in your area of choice.

I know several people who take the allergy shots for juniper and it seems to help a little bit, but not to make it go away.

[banjomike]

Originally Posted by oregonwoodsmoke

I know that people with juniper allergies really suffer during juniper pollen season. I even benefited from it when my neighbor bought 3 cords of juniper firewood and had a reaction to the smoke, so I ended up with their firewood. Juniper makes excellent firewood, by the way,

Here's your issue, OP. You don't want rain and you don't want juniper. But you can tell how many inches of rain a place gets by the type of wild tree that grows there. You don't like rain and neither does the wild growing juniper. So, dry places in the Pacific Northwest have juniper growing.

If you find a place where the wild trees are pine, then there is enough rain to keep the pine trees happy and too much rain for the juniper. Fir trees appear to want even more rain and there won't be juniper growing among the fir trees.

I suspect that if you have severe allergies, that domestic juniper might bother you, and juniper is extensively used for landscaping. If that is the case, then you would need to actually drive around and look at gardens in your area of choice.

I know several people who take the allergy shots for juniper and it seems to help a little bit, but not to make it go away.

Yup. Spruce needs even more water than pine. The Sitka spruce depends on heavy rain and a damp atmosphere to survive, and the Englemann spruce also needs high moisture. The only stands of Englemann in Idaho are only found where there's a lot of ground moisture year round. The Englemann can grow in a drier climate, but won't flourish without lots of water.

This topic has made me wonder if other pine pollen can irritate people's allergies. I've seen the air in a lot of pine forests turn yellow with pollen when a wind gust comes along this time of year, but tree pollen has never bothered me; ragweed does it for me, but few others, and no trees I'm aware of.