CEDAR trees make you sneeze, so the saying goes, and the 750 in Wagga's CBD are doing just that.
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The cedar trees are known to impact asthma sufferers and with high winds and storms expected, the region's hospitals have been put on alert.
The cedar trees have also made Wagga City Council's list of species to be removed and 50 have already been chopped down in recent years.
Council's manager of parks and recreational services Dave Walker said the remaining 750 would be removed in the next five to 15 years.
"(The removal) is not specifically concerned (with the asthma effect) but it's fair to say in an operational sense we're aware of it," he said.
"You only have to walk around the city to see there are a lot of them."
Mr Walker said the audit of the trees' age and health determines when the cedars would be removed, not specifically health concerns.
But in recognition of the problem, the felled cedars are being replaced with low-fruiting varieties or different species altogether.
There are 45,000 trees in Wagga and council has a budget of about $90,000 a year for new ones.
It also spends about $800,000 a year on tree management, including removing old ones. Of the 8000 in the conservation area, 4000 will be removed in the next 15 years.
Asthma respiratory clinical nurse consultant, Robyn Paton, said the local health district had put hospitals on notice due to high winds and pollen count.
"If we get rain before the storm that will level the pollen count down," she said.