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<blockquote data-quote="KDM" data-source="post: 172430" data-attributes="member: 314"><p>I have Colorado Blue and Black Hills spruce as well as junipers and ponderosas and BY FAR, the deer prefer the ponderosas and junipers for bedding.&nbsp; The spruces have dense low hanging branches that the deer can't get under so they bed between them in the grass on the downwind side which doesn't work very well in snow.&nbsp; The pheasants however, prefer the spruces so pick your poison I guess.&nbsp; The ponderosas have a more open growth and the deer get right into them for bedding even with snow.&nbsp; We planted them about 15 ft apart so once the canopy closed in the lower branches died off and now it's like a house in there where its 20 degrees cooler in summer or 20 degrees warmer in winter.&nbsp; The ideal for my land is junipers on the north and west to block wind and snow and then ponderosas for protection and to hold the heat.&nbsp; The deer tended to rub and browse the junipers more than the pines, but there were those exceptions where a buck really got after a pine and tore it to pieces.&nbsp; Good Luck!!!</p></blockquote><p></p>

[QUOTE="KDM, post: 172430, member: 314"] I have Colorado Blue and Black Hills spruce as well as junipers and ponderosas and BY FAR, the deer prefer the ponderosas and junipers for bedding. The spruces have dense low hanging branches that the deer can't get under so they bed between them in the grass on the downwind side which doesn't work very well in snow. The pheasants however, prefer the spruces so pick your poison I guess. The ponderosas have a more open growth and the deer get right into them for bedding even with snow. We planted them about 15 ft apart so once the canopy closed in the lower branches died off and now it's like a house in there where its 20 degrees cooler in summer or 20 degrees warmer in winter. The ideal for my land is junipers on the north and west to block wind and snow and then ponderosas for protection and to hold the heat. The deer tended to rub and browse the junipers more than the pines, but there were those exceptions where a buck really got after a pine and tore it to pieces. Good Luck!!! [/QUOTE]

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