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The tree is small, tht's kinda why I never really took a pic of it. It used to be squat and wideish. Now you can just see some leaves on one side showing it's a Willow oak, and what seems like branches that likely deer flossed their teeth with. From the last pic, you can see the lower trunk is cracked. So I guess the tree won't be making any recovery. I guess I can try and find some Willow oak acorns at a nunnery near me. There is only 1 Willow oak there, so either I find a couple acorns, or I choose another tree. I really won't have trouble finding another tree if I can't find any Willow oak acorns.

I'd have skipped the symbols in the expletive. That's serious heartbreak. It is really too bad.

Clean cut the shredded limbs with no leaves. Don't worry so much about where you cut them, but just get a good clean cut. Leave any parts with leaves. Protect what you have left from further attack. Then, after the worst parts of winter are done, but a while before budbreak in spring, cut the tree down to just above ground level and let it resprout. There's no way to know for sure that it will come back, but chances are actually fairly decent. I've had beavers molest my oaks and cut a few completely down. Some were large enough that they couldn't carry the trunks away once they chewed them down. Every one, except for one (I'm pretty sure), came back. After a couple of years, they are doing very well.

Cut to ground and train a new sprout

I would have faith of it coming back from the ground, if not for the split of the lower trunk. It just seems to look like the lower trunk has been split. I am thinking it can be seen in the last picture I posted. If I can't get any free Willow oak acorns at the nunnery, I will just sow some acorns I can get or have already. I have lots of Q. Velutinas, some Q.Albas, and could get some Sugar maple samarras soon also.

Logan, I would'nt want to have a tree from the sprout of the same tree.

Being that the original little Willow oak tree has a fractured trunk at ground level, I know that trying to get another tree from that root system will give me a tree that will co me from a weak original trunk. MY other Willow oak tree was killed by deer and Cicadas, I just used my saws all to get rid of that tree, and then saw this previously fine Willow oak that had been fine for 2 years, now eaten by (likely deer). I don't think That leaving the butchered tree's half carcass there will help anything. I think that if i really want another willow oak there, I need to get somemore Willow oak acorns and sow them ASAP.

For the past few years I have been wrapping tree trunks with heavy duty aluminum foil during rut season. Deer do not like the sound of the foil crinkling and will stay away from it.

You've made the comment about cicadas before. I've never known a tree to die from cicadas. You have me worried. Are willow oak particularly vulnerable to them, or are they particularly bad where you are?

Also,have you considered getting a dog?

Really, it WILL be fine. I wouldn't even bother pruning off any damaged stuff now.

Cut that thing off just above ground level next spring, just before it breaks dormancy. I'll bet you a Coke that it'll sprout from the root collar, grow vigorously, and within a year or two, I'll bet that it'll look better than the bushy shrub it appears to have been before that buck demolished it.

And when you cut it to the ground NEXT SPRING, cage it, at least 4' high, and use a fine mesh, cuz the widdle bunnies and mousies love new growth.

Alabama, there wasn't much trunk to wrap for me, it was like a shrub, and it was further from where the deer usually usually come onto my land, it was so short I never thought they would bother it. I have 3, 8-10 ft oaks close to where the deer come over from the woods, that I would've thought they would've went for before this little Willow oak. Ed Lincoln I don't think this tree was targeted for any reason by the Cicadas, because they killed back many trees, my Durand oak was a 3 inch thick trunk with sprouts coming up from the bottom, the top was killed, so I just bought 2 more Durand oaks. They killed back about 3 ft of the top of a beadles oak. I am letting it releader. The Cicadas messed up my Pecan really bad, but it has bounced back. The first Willow oak that got killed was deer damaged last year, then Cicadas hit it, I don't think there's any one tree the cicadas like more. Any dogs I have Ed, will be snuggled in the house with the family, so no help there, but, Ed, the Cicadas I am talking about are the ones that come every 17 years, so any tree that replaces it, will be pretty large and have lottsa leaves by the next time they come back. However, I know why the deer are coming up further into my yard than before, my dads apple trees are bearing, and my Chestnut oak is dumping acorns. The Willow oak is pretty much in the lower yard still, but, they are likely wandering around when it's dark. I've put a tomato cage around my newly planted Beadles oak I just got, and have found that there are netlike garbage cans from the Dollar Tree that are good for protecting small seedlings until they are tall enough for the tree shelters I bought. I also am wondering of maybe a groundhog or bunny didn't do that to the short Willow oak. Anyone reading this a hunter? Or deer knowledgeable? Are they rubbing the velvet off yet? Are they going crazy and fighting with other bucks and trees even yet? I think it's too early to be going crazy to mate already. And it would be fighting with my bigger oaks anyways. Later guys, thanks also.

Another attock this time a small Compton's oak Comptons

My Willow oak is coming back, but it's really deformed, I will get pics soon.

The Compton's is sorta okay too.

Always protect small trees from animals. If it isn't deer, it will be rabbits.

You need to research recipes about venison...problem solved, freezer filled.

I believe the deer are rubbing the velvet off their antlers. Thankfully it only lasts for a short time. The deer came through and devastated all my young trees some years ago. They destroyed a maple, lotus, and all the shrubs almost down to the ground. I let the all the trees/shrubs alone and they started growing again from the ground-up, but the maple and lotus are very unusual looking. Last year they went crazy in another area full of new trees and shrubs and did the same thing. I have bought a fan and 10’ air-dancer, like they have outside car dealerships, to keep the deer away from the younger plants this year. Once the plants are a good size they can defend themselves from the deer.

Hi there, this damage was from last year, not this past year, I am just updating that there is lottsa new growth on it, and I MAY be able to prune it so it can actually grow and look like a tree again. I should've posted all that. I hope I can get it into a tree shape again, then protect. I don't have a plug near this tree, so i'll need a fence around it. I have made several, and they are around my young seedlings.