My son noticed several trees, all small caliper, with wounds as in the picture, generally low on the trunk. There was one tree where an area of bark was removed at about 5'.
Who is the likely culprit? Porcupine? Squirrels? Deer? I'm 1000' from a stream and have never seen beavers this far up hill. Someone will pay a price for this transgression.
Two 2x4 concrete block arches with three steam trays each
Tapping in Mount Vernon since 2016, 30 to 70 taps, 5/16" tube to 1.5 to 3.5 gallon buckets, some trees on collective gravity tubing to 5 gallon buckets.
Mostly sugar maples, a few reds on 200 year old homestead
What animal is eating my maple bark!
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