I have a zone of elevation around my yard I call the mule deer zone. The zone starts at ground level and extends to five feet above the ground. The zone indicates the range of reach for browsing mule deer. The branches of trees and bushes within the zone are regularly stripped free of leaves by foraging deer.
As I have mentioned in previous
blogs, I decided when I first moved to the country not to constantly push
against the natural landscape and not to fight the indigenous animals.
Some of the trees and bushes
wear the look of living in the zone fairly well, others appear somewhat spindly. But they survive.
The deer survive.
I survive.
Mayday Tree
Chokecherry Bush
—Mitchell Hegman
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