The Familiar Plants and Animals That Invaded America's Landscape

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15. Thank you! We have quite a selection of oaks, as well as hickory and ash, and other odds and ends.

I plan on leaving a bit open (a small, open field, surrounded by trees) being that I have quails (turkeys and deer of course too) around that area too, and they seem to like a little open space to venture out into, and munch on the goodies. We also have gooseberries, raspberries and blackberries in another part of that parcel of land, as well as walnuts. I enjoy the area very much for the wildlife it attracts, if anything.

Being that we're somewhat to the West of the Mark Twain National Forest (w/ its pines), I know that pine (short leaf) would be do good, but the deer love munching on it (the bark I guess), and they killed quite a few of the large assortment of pines I put in before.

Take care and thanks so much for your help. It's always so exciting to see how things turn out down the road, and of course I won't be around forever to see all of the changes, but at least future generations of our family will (we're on our fourth generation down there now). Be safe.