Although it is very rair, I have seen a few scrapes worked after a fashion year round. Usually they are permanent scrapes, and more often the deer seen to stomp around in them and work the licking branch a little as opposed to pawing the dirt...my guess is the heaviest scrapes remain free of grass and weeds year round not from 'work' but more from the amonia in the urine kills everything in that area during the rut. Anybody else?