I’m guessing that deer liked to eat Aspen trees?
The elk now live in terror.
I’m guessing that deer liked to eat Aspen trees?
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an estimated 18,000 ELK ranged across the park, chomping on grasses and shrubs as well as the leaves, twigs and bark of trees like quaking aspen (Populus tremuloides). This stopped saplings from establishing themselves, and surveys in the 1990s found no aspen saplings.
Canadian wolves to be sure.
This is interesting.
I planted some maple and white birch sapling I got from the state and had to put cages around them to protect them from the deer and rabbits, and anything else that might want to browse the trees and eat the bark in winter.
We made them from turkey wire and then wrapped chicken wire around that. They’ll stay that way for a few years until the trees are big enough to manage without them.