I have no knowledge of porcupines but the tree should continue to grow below the damage.
European spruce bark beetle was created in 1758.
it will diebecause it carries food in the bark
A variety of animals eat Balsam Fir Trees. Moose eat foliage, twigs and small branches. Whitetail deel and snowshoe hares eat the bark as well as the porcupine/ The spruce budworms eat the needles.
Richard A. Werner has written: 'The spruce beetle in white spruce forests of Alaska' -- subject(s): Spruce, Diseases and pests 'Dispersal of the spruce beetle, Dendroctonus rufipennis, and the engraver beetle, Ips perturbatus, in Alaska' -- subject(s): Dispersal, Spruce beetle, Bark beetles, Trees, Diseases and pests 'The spruce beetle in Alaska forests' -- subject(s): Spruce bark beetles
A common porcupine is a herbivore. They eat leaves, herbs, twigs, green plants (live clover), and in the winter they sometimes eat bark. It varies with what kind of porcupine you have.
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well it is a tree with green leaves on it and it has bark
Floyd G. Manwiller has written: 'Wood and bark properties of spruce pine' -- subject(s): Spruce
Birch is much better because the bark has oils in it that is a natural firestarter It also burns longer than spruce
For example: My dog loves to bark at the mailman. The rabbits had stripped the bark from all around the base of the new tree. The canoe was made of birch bark and pine pitch. His bark was worse than his bite.
A porcupine visits Brian and inadvertently helps him figure out how to build a fire by making him realize that the bark of a tree is dry and flammable. Brian observes the porcupine chewing on the bark, which gives him the idea to use it as kindling for his fire.
Their major source of food is tree bark. They will eat tree bark until the resource is dry then they will start eating plants.