Hunting Washington Forum
Big Game Hunting => Bear Hunting => Topic started by: AKBowman on July 25, 2010, 08:11:36 PM
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Are they getting at grubs? What food source are they searching?
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Nevermind, they are going after the sugar layer between the bark and tree.
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yep, they eat the cambium layer (sap wood), high in sugar content after the winter, as a forester I have to deal with this a lot, they destroy and kill lots of Douglas Fir trees, when they girdle the tree, it will most llikely die and when they just take a portion of the bark off it will cause damage in the tree which will affect the end result of the quality of the tree
