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 ...

Hardy trees and shrubs are naturally well armored against winter weather, but they have fewer defenses against animals.

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

When I first began hunting whitetails in the big woods of northern Maine more than 50 years ago, I made a discovery that continues to impact my deer hunting to this day. Whereas scrapes attract much ...

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 ...