I went for a walk today in the woods behind the house. I discovered a group of trees with the bark stripped off. The bark was freshly removed almost to the top of the trees. At first I thought it might have been kids that had removed it but then I could not figure out how they got close to the top (40 feet up?). My neighbour came with me back to the area a little later. It looks like the work of an animal but we cannot figure out what. Very strange and a little creepy. One tree had some markings on it but I am not sure if it is related to the stripping or not. Definitely not the work of a beaver because the trees have not been eaten. Any ideas?
We tried to remove the bark ourselves to see how difficult it would be but it was to hard.
