QUODITCH EDUCATION DEVON
One animal that is doing slight damage is the grey squirrel. Squirrels have the habit of stripping the bark off trees. In fields three and four they have taken the bark off both oak and birch. Apparently it is not unknown for squirrels to attack trees on the edge of land that has been cleared.
Some of the trees have had their bark totally stripped and are beginning to show a fungal build up
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