Even in wintertime, hikers don’t have to step off the trail in Frick Park to see telltale signs of deer.
Narrow trees bear the jagged marks of buck rubs, where male deer have dug down into the living layer of the trunk with their antlers. That injury that can kill a fledgling tree, and the understory around the foot of the trees is sparse and meager. Only a few invasive species remain.
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