Earlier this fall buck white-tailed deer began rubbing small trees and shrubs with their antlers. This preliminary act for the mating season and beyond has continued with antler fights between the bucks and the tree. In many cases bark is stripped from the sapling to the point of causing deformity and death of the tree.
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