I just discovered some damage from deer rubs to the trunks of a couple of my trees. Will the trees be OK, and what can I do to protect them in the future? Bucks can cause significant damage to young ...

“I recently discovered damage to the bark on my dawn redwood. Could this be caused by deer? What can I do to prevent more damage?” The peeling bark on your dawn redwood was probably caused by ...

CLEVELAND, Ohio -- Perhaps the most common question when choosing plants for a Northeast Ohio is whether they are deer-resistant. Unfortunately, the answer is usually “it depends,” both on the time of ...

Buck rubs here in Western New York and Northern Pa. are beginning to pop in earnest throughout forests, field edges, and even roadsides. And like popcorn, at first their appearance is slow, but as ...

Antlers can do significant, although not usually fatal, damage to tree trunks and branches. (Penn State University) Q: We have a young dappled willow tree that has severe, splintered bark damage from ...

I have always considered rubs, those white scars on the forest’s saplings, a mystery in the world of the whitetail buck. At least in my mind, we call sign made by deer "ground scrapes," including the ...

This picture shows a small willow tree that a whitetail buck deer has used to rub his antlers. During late summer and early autumn male deer push their antlers against, up and down the trunks of tree ...

Brainerd, Minn. - It was nearly 3:30 p.m. when I decided to bow hunt from my favorite deer stand. The date was Nov. 12, 2012, one day after the close of Minnesota's Zone 2 firearms deer season. I ...

In the flow of my life's education, there is constant new information. Recently, again there was an incident directed at my young but maturing pine sapling. An abusive attack to the trunk had shredded ...

The ability to spot rubs and scrapes is an acquired skill. They may be invisible to rookie hunters, but with a little bit of practice, spotting them becomes routine. Whitetails don’t have to work ...