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Porcupine damage
Erethizon dorsatum
- Bark chewed or removed on trunk and branches at any level
- Higher branches snipped off with clean, smooth, slanted cut
- Snipped-off twigs on ground
- More common in winter and on young trees with thinner bark
- More information on Porcupine damage
