Deer in the Forest
One of the malevolent influences of deer in the bush was recently noted by a young member of the Forest and Bird Protection Society. Last year he had carefully measured the circumference of a young rimu tree in order to find out how much it grew in a year. It was then a sturdy sapling'five inches in diameter and all of 30 feet tall. Recently he went to measure the tree again, but found it was now withered and dead. The cause oi its death was plain to see—from within a foot to about five feet above the ground every shred ox young + ender bark had been torn and bruised off. This had been done by a stag rubbing his antlei'S against it. Hundreds of young trees in the bush are killed in this way.
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Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 10, Issue 3, 24 July 1946, Page 6
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139Deer in the Forest Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 10, Issue 3, 24 July 1946, Page 6
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