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Animals May Damage Your Trees in Winter
Animals such as deer, squirrels, rabbits, and chipmunks are just a few of the creatures active year-round and live in the cold.
Animals such as deer, squirrels, rabbits, and chipmunks are just a few of the creatures active year-round and live in the cold.
Many landscape plants incur winter damage. Dead branches and twigs found in the spring are often the result of ice and snow damage during the winter. Often the rapid drop in temperature during a mid-winter thaw causes bark splitting and frost or freeze results in plant injury.