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 ...

Now is when deer are most likely to rub the bark off your trees with their antlers. But that's not the only cold-season ...

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 ...

While driving around the Miami Valley, I noticed quite a bit of deer damage to many of the landscape trees and some shrubs. Understanding deer (and other critters) behavior goes a long way in helping ...

Unfortunately, gardeners report varying degrees of success with sprays. What works for some people, does not work for others. This depends on the deer population, how well the spray was applied, ...

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 ...

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 ...