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- Deer browse is a sign of deer rips on plants.
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- We identified all of the trees growing out of the tubes.
- We tallied up all of the trees
- We looked for deer browse on the trees.
- We marked browsed trees with a GPS system.
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- The Hazelnut plant was browsed the most.
- The Black Locust grew the most and the fastest.
- Black Oak, Persimmon, Black Walnut, Redbud, and Red Maple were not
browsed at all.
- Less trees were browsed this year then last year.
- Sycamore and American Plum are growing the slowest.
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- The Black Locust had a defense mechanism, its thorns.
- Hazelnut is the deer’s favorite tree
- The deer repellent from last year may have worked.
- Tear-thumb and sticker bushes make it harder to walk for the deer.
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- Spray deer repellent on the
trees more often.
- Manage and maintain the deer
population at Harford Glen.
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- To what extent have the human induced changes impacted the natural
succession process in Harford Glen?
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Notes
