Garden Pests and Diseases: deer strips live oak bark, 1 by MartyJo

MartyJo wrote:
Glad I found this thread, although I think I'm more in the market for sympathy than advice. Here's a 3 or 4 year old Japanese tree lilac that had a large amount of its bark rubbed off a couple of nights ago. Nearly 3 feet of bark were removed 3/4 of the way around the trunk. Our county Extension agent says all it takes is one strip of live bark to keep the tree going---but the voice of experience says that it might survive and struggle a couple years, but will never recover enough to be what we want. I think we will probably replace it. It's only about 25 feet from our kitchen window and highly visible.

I appreciated the links on dealing with wildlife. We need to take some measures to protect our other tree. (See next post.)