Trees, Shrubs and Conifers: Deer damage, 0 by Weerobin

Weerobin wrote:
I looked into a variety of tree guards to protect against deer rubbing.
I went with this one: http://www.amleo.com/product.aspx?p=VP-BG
I should have a million pictures of them, since I have tried to protect nearly every tree in my yard with them, but when taking pictures, I always carefully try to avoid having the tree guards in the view. Here's the only picture I could find at the moment. This is early spring, so the guards show up most obviously, since trees aren't leafed out yet. There are 2 saplings with tree protectors on the right side of the photo. There's nothing subtle about them, but they are heavy-duty and protect against deer rubbing better than anything else I've tried. But you need to secure them with multiple cable ties, otherwise the deer can still rip them off.
The 2nd pic shows typical deer rubbing injury. They prefer trunk diameters of 1-3 inches. Damage is from ~1-4ft off the ground, I'd guess. And I swear, they prefer the trees I value the most! They never bother the zillions of redbud/hackberry/elm seedlings... My Degroot Spire thuja's all have bald patches in that area from the deer (3rd pic).