Trees for Winter Browsing

[J sin]

I’m looking for some suggestions on what trees would be good to drop or hinge for winter browse. My soybeans are pretty well gone and the turnips and radishes are getting slim. 

 

Thank you you in advance.

 

Cheers,

 

Jsin

[corydd7]

Maple for sure. I dropped 10 mature maples last year this time of year and within two weeks they were browsed down. Next time I'll put a trail cam on them. 

[Zag]

Maples the best i think

[Zag]

Look for the poorest maples and hinge them. They don't touch beech trees at our place.

[G-Man]

Red maple, Aspen, poplar, silver maple, hard maple , red oak , white oak ...in that order

[Bigfoot 327]

I used to cut ash for firewood. Deer would hammer the tops, eating not just the buds but also any branch less than the size of a pencil. They also love wild sumac, which I ordinarily would not cut, but I had some where I didn't want them. Deer flock to sumac like candy.

[wildcat junkie]

When we were cutting shooting lanes last fall we piled some cedar branches from trees we cut down around a ground blind.

Within weeks the deer had stripped the branches clean.

[airedale]

1 minute ago, wildcat junkie said:

we piled some cedar branches from trees we cut down around a ground blind.

Within weeks the deer had stripped the branches clean.

They love cedar, I have a cedar in my yard that does not have a branch on it's trunk below 7 feet from Deer hitting it.

Al

[LET EM GROW]

Maple, Poplar, Oak, Hemlock, Cedar..  

[land 1]

all good choices ... I seem to find soft maple #1 but if food is in short supply I have yet to find a top they wont eat once its in there reach. I would look for any trees that are poorly shaped in places you dont want them poor timber trees and start there the type of tree  is not as important as getting it in to the deers reach

[Dom]

I have a row of Lilac's that get browsed often.

[landtracdeerhunter]

I had a number of Popular and Willow come down in last weekends wind storm. A  large number of deer have come into feed ever since. 

[dbHunterNY]

suggestions on species already made. some hardwoods can be high value trees. save any that are straight especially ones with easily created room around them. great ones to look for are ones with double trunks at the base. over time they'll die or break first. they also won't give you much of any board feet for lumber or veneer logs. they're more of a fire wood tree. great for leaving the lots of tops after you cut them down or hinge them.