JD Miller on Instagram: "I talk about eastern red cedars quite often on my page. The woody encroachment, the fire hazard, and the uses for cedars. But I haven’t touched on the tick problem. When Eastern Redcedar pushes into grassland, it builds a tick incubation habitat under its branches with the creation of cooler ambient temperatures, trapped high humidity, thick litter, lessened sun exposure. That microclimate is all the Lone Star tick needs to survive where it never could before and extends