Yes! Hence the title of the post "porcupine damage"I'd say porcupine..they love beech tree bark as food .
Ernie
Haha ... missed that part !Yes! Hence the title of the post "porcupine damage"
All good bud.Haha ... missed that part !
I was thinking you were asking what others thought .
Ernie
I never seen a tree so chewed up either. I hate them almost as much as you! No closed season on them little bastids in Maine. I've only seen one other on my land while out bird hunting. Needless to say he didn't get a chance to eat my house. I've never eaten one but have heard they're decent.I've seen porcupine damage in the north woods, but never seen one top to bottom like that. Damn! I hate those rodents. You'll have one of the finest sugar maples (or other species) until one of those toothy SOBs chews its bark to bits. I've climbed trees with a club in hand to kill one (only once successfully). I've shot them and chased them down. Went to camp one time and found one ambling along in the drive and gunned the pickup (my was protesting) and squashed that SOB dead.
Did I mention that I don't like porcupines?
One time in the 1970s I brought home one I'd killed. We ate a lot of wild meat (squirrel, coon, beaver, etc.). My wife cooked up "sweet & sour porkypine"--we still laugh about that. It was a fine meal.
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