Plant thornless Hawthorne varieties!

Crabapples like Red splendor have persistent fruit that doesn’t drop. I had a Robin eating fruit at -20 yesterday. Cedar Wax wings hit the tree weeks ago.

Kerr apples for deer. Check out Blue Hill Nursery for apple trees for wildlife.

Very prolific here, grows thick almost like buckthorn if conditions are right, nice little trees, highly recommended.

North forty apples, in Michigan. Started taking orders on the 15th,might have some left.

Interesting website, thanks. I'd never heard of them. Too bad they require buying package/minimum quantities.

DO NOT PLANT CALLERY PEARS! Or whatever name the nursery's are using to fool folks. Crab apples make good people/wildlife feed and make good shelter. Always good to plant common local fruit/nut trees.

Pear and sawtooth oak.

pear tree

Wild plums, wild apples, domestic apples, crabapples, persimmons, pears, hazelnuts, blueberries, raspberries, blackberries.

Some probably like the way plums can root sprout and create thicker wildlife cover

Correct!
Pyrus calleryana, or the Callery pear, is a species of pear tree native to China and Vietnam, in the family Rosaceae. It is most commonly known for its cultivar 'Bradford' and its offensive odor, widely planted throughout the United States and increasingly regarded as an invasive species.

I don’t think this tree is sold in nurseries anymore.

Lots of good pear trees to plant.

Great post, thanks. I too am trying to learn more about wildlife shrubs. For whatever it's worth, here's the list of wildlife shrubs WisDNR sells. The forester told me all of these on the list work for deer. I should add that Amercan Plum was also on the list, but didn't fit in my screenshot

White cedar is great for deer.

I suppose it's hard to get them to grow without the deer eating them. I wonder how they do in the shade

I have never seen people eat crab apples, but have wondered how they would be.

What I can't seem to find, is if I cut down tag alders, can I plant white cedar with success?

Too early for me to declare success but I planted Alder shear #1 with red osier dogwood and Alder shear #2 with white cedar and balsam fir. I didn't select cedar for the browse content just thermal break eventually, the browse line is set at the highest snow fall year and on cedar is typically unreachable. My objective with #2 was to create buck bedding areas away from the doe groups that bed closer to the Aspen clear cut shown and food plot shown in corn this year. After shearing the Alder you'll see natural openings to dump in trees and shrubs that thrive in a moist habitat.

Are there any downsides to high bush cranberry & are they good to plant for deer?

I have planted a few and also have some growing wild. I have never seen the deer eat them but the grouse LOVE them and they hold berries fairly late into the winter.

I have them but not sure- as 160 said supposed to be grouse candy… I thought it was a member of the viburnum family

ttt... thx Eagleeye for the input...I'm hoping to be ontp something by cutting 1/4 acre of tag alder and replanting cedar for bedding areas..just don't know if the cedar will like that soil or not... there is 1 forester I do beaver control work for that could answer this, but I hate to bother him for free info..although I could possibly hire him for alder shearing? maybe