In article , jammer wrote:

There are lots of mice and rats around here and i have never heard of
such a thing.

If all you have is the common house mouse, or the clever Norway rat, none
self-respecting would be particularly apt to eat bark, as they have a
canny ability to find all sorts of human food & wasted food & are not
reliant on nature, but on the nature of Man. But if you have a shitload of
starving meadow-mice or voles, then tender young saplings provide a
back-up foodsource for winter, & on rare occasions when there's truly
nothing else to eat, they'll even debark the bases of mature trees, though
that one's far less often seen.

-paghat the ratgirl

On Tue, 25 Mar 2003 12:41:38 -0500, "bthache"
wrote:

Hi Group,
I'm new to this newsgroup but I'm really hoping someone here can help me.
Last spring, for the very first time, when the snow melted, we realized that
all the bark had been chewed off of our willow tree (very young tree.. only
3 feet high). Then, we started seeing trees or branches all over town here
that had been chewed. Anything that had been under the snow was completely
stripped and had little teeny tiny chew marks. This morning, I noticed the
branches on my cherry bushes (just planted last summer) have the same damage
and I don't know if they'll survive.

Can anyone recommend a way of protecting these trees and bushes? I have new
bushes coming to be planted this summer and don't want the same thing to
happen. Any help will be very greatly appreciated!

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jammer
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