Common Bark Options:
* Maple: Sugar maples, red maples, and silver maples are favorites.
* Oak: White oak, red oak, and black oak.
* Birch: Paper birch, yellow birch, and sweet birch.
* Apple: Deer love the bark of apple trees, especially young trees.
* Willow: Both weeping willow and willow trees in general.
* Ash: White ash and green ash.
* Poplar: Cottonwood, aspen, and balsam poplar.
* Elm: American elm, slippery elm, and winged elm.
Other Bark Options:
* Dogwood: Flowering dogwood and red osier dogwood.
* Pine: Deer will eat the bark of young pines, especially white pine.
* Hemlock: Eastern hemlock and Carolina hemlock.
* Cherry: Black cherry and chokecherry.
* Sumac: Staghorn sumac and smooth sumac.
* Juniper: Eastern red cedar and common juniper.
Important Notes:
* Deer prefer the bark of young trees and saplings.
* They typically eat the bark from the lower trunk and branches.
* Bark-eating can be detrimental to trees, especially when done in large quantities.
* Deer may also eat twigs, buds, and leaves, not just bark.
If you have trees that you want to protect from deer, you can use fencing, tree wraps, or repellents.