Beech Bark

[thewoodlands]

Any thoughts on what is messing with the bark on these two beech, maybe a porcupine.


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[joshlaugh]

I don't have porcupine around me, but do have lots of beavers. They like to strip off bark and eat it but I have never seen them do it to a beech tree.

 

[chinkapin_oak]

Beaver damage. The beavers in our creek loved to girdle all the Ash trees. When they killed all the ash trees, they started eating the bark off the Beech, Burr oak, Hackberrr, and Elm trees. About the only trees they won't touch are Walnut and Sycamore.

I suggest finding a trapper to take care of the problem. It will only get worse if you don't limit the population. On a side note, ask the trapper if you can have the meat from the beaver. It's actually good.

 

[thewoodlands]

Beaver damage. The beavers in our creek loved to girdle all the Ash trees. When they killed all the ash trees, they started eating the bark off the Beech, Burr oak, Hackberrr, and Elm trees. About the only trees they won't touch are Walnut and Sycamore.

I suggest finding a trapper to take care of the problem. It will only get worse if you don't limit the population. On a side note, ask the trapper if you can have the meat from the beaver. It's actually good.

If I get time I'll put up a trail cam on Sunday. The reason I ask about the pine is one lives in this old tree across from this beech.


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[Lynch]

i would grab my gun
trapper who?

 

[Backwoods Savage]

It looks like beavers to me too.

 

[devinsdad]

How far away is the waterway? I'll go out back and take some pictures of my beaver damage. I've seen porcupines eat wooden tree stands

 

[JustWood]

Pine pig 4 sure. Beaver wooda had it on ground .

 

[devinsdad]

swamp rat snack

 

[thewoodlands]

Pine pig 4 sure. Beaver wooda had it on ground .

I'm with you on this, the pine lives in the tree across the trail. Trail Cam going up next weekend.



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[Wood Duck]

Over the hill from here are a bunch of beaver ponds, and there are many trees with similar damage around the ponds. I can't say for sure beavers did the damage, but they are the prime suspects. if the same damage was more than a few feet off the ground, then I'd say porcupines for sure.

 

[thewoodlands]

swamp rat snack

I have one small beech by the brook a beaver started on then just left, I'll try and get a picture next weekend.


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[FLINT]

Any thoughts on what is messing with the bark on these two beech, maybe a porcupine.


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Those are really good pictures - and I bet a mammalogist could tell from the incisor marks.

On trees that i've seen beavers chewing on - seems like they chew deeper into the wood - and that the teeth marks look bigger.

although that was a good point that someone made about porcupines chewing further up in the tree as well.

 

[thewoodlands]

Any thoughts on what is messing with the bark on these two beech, maybe a porcupine.


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Those are really good pictures - and I bet a mammalogist could tell from the incisor marks.

On trees that i've seen beavers chewing on - seems like they chew deeper into the wood - and that the teeth marks look bigger.

although that was a good point that someone made about porcupines chewing further up in the tree as well.

This is some info from this link that I read after posting.

(broken link removed)


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