Tree bark tastier than you would think.

So the topic of this post is a little random but i figured that it is not commonly known information about a rather secretive animal the porcupine. I have been managing to make it into the bush more regularly now that the weather is improving and have seen a number of young trees that have been stripped of much of there bark. I knew that it had to be something small as no deer or rodent would nimble on a tree to this degree and height. The pictures in this post are of the biggest tree that i have found stripped of its bark likes this. I am pretty certain that it is a porcupine that did this as pine is there usual food source but they are known to eat other kinds when the supply of pine bark is low.