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Old 07-18-2009, 06:48 PM
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R.S.B.
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Your picture has striped maple, red maple and wild buckwheat in it that I can identify pkus a couple others that are just a tad too out of focus to identify.

The red maple and wild buckwheat are both pretty good deer browse. The striped maple isn’t as good but it isn’t horrible either. The striped maple is an ok shrub layer species and will keep deer alive through some pretty tough times even though it is not one of the best deer food species. If deer had only striped maple they might survive but they probably wouldn’t be able to produce enough surviving fawns to ever increase their population and maybe not even sustain their population with modest adult mortality.

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