What sharpened their claws on these trees?

[davesl708]

I would rule out beaver or porcupine. To high up. The lack of tracks indicate they were made before the recent snow.
Trees seem to large for a rub. Have not see bear scraps shaped that way but have not seen all bear scrapes. Guess they can scrape any way they want.

 

[davesl708]

Welcome to TBN (January 2014 and first post)
Marks on trees made by Bigfoot.

Set out a bag of beef jerky and a trail cam. Just don't mess with him.

 

[donk2014]

I have seen porkies 50 feet up a pine tree. When lost on a usfs road i would come to a sign post and the porkies had eaten the numbers off the sign. Guess they liked the white paint.. Used to piss me off still lost!:thumbsup:

 

[donk2014]

could it be?

 

[sixdogs]

I have seen porcupines do a lot of tree damage in a short time when I lived in the north. I can't recall marks exactly like that but they were pretty destructive and showed up overnight.

 

[k0ua]

This isn't the beginning of another pallet thread is it?

 

[donk2014]

I am still thinking domestic. Do you have grazing land nearby. Cougar could do it, as per game cam above above they are pretty good sized cat. 160 lbs maybe + or -. I think moose would have munched on saplings as would beaver. Don't know what critters abound where you are.

 

[sixdogs]

This isn't the beginning of another pallet thread is it?

Let's hope not but it would explain why there were no marks around the base on the tree.

 

[MossRoad]

Moose marks on trees....

https://www.google.com/search?q=moo...zDVKqrEZSzyASCy4GYAQ&ved=0CAYQ_AUoAQ#imgdii=_

 

[Looking4new]

Wrong time of year for antlers, bears wake up in winter on occasion, porkys like pine, is there a pond in the area? my guess cat or beaver.
any domestic animals around..horses will strip a tree, donkeys ?
What species of tree, alder, cascara?

Swamp donkey is another name for a Moose. Algonquin Park is lousy with Moose/swamp donkeys.

 

[jimmyj]

Interesting about the Moose. I go to Algonquin yearly and yes there are tons of them there. I've never seen marks like that though, usually they browse on smaller brush and saplings. And not usually pine from what I've seen but I'm no expert for sure. Porcupines don't damage trees in this pattern. Certainly the pictures MossRoad posted look more similar than anything else we have seen.

I don't know, I think it looks like a man made mechanical sort of damage. Could it be someone using the logging road cleaned the bucket or a grapple or something from heavy equipment on the trees? I guess to short list the choices it's either a moose or a machine. Or a moose driving a machine....

Porcupine damage images and also other types of tree damage from animals. porcupine damage to trees - Bing Images

 

[Thomas]

Moose chewing,we have the same marks around our home,deer will do the same but in strips when winter food hard to find.

 

[SG51Buss]

Whatcha got there is the elusive "BC Backscratcher".

Send it on down thisaway, I got this spot just below my left shoulder ........

 

[stuckmotor]

I hope so.

This isn't the beginning of another pallet thread is it?

 

[stuckmotor]

I think I'll have to go with moose rub or, considering that some of the critters at the following link appear to be elk, maybe elk rub. They must have wrapped rags round their hooves to keep from leaving tracks.
http://www.dogpile.com/search/images?fcoid=417&fcop=topnav&fpid=27&q=moose+rub&ql=

 

[Baby Grand]

Take a look at the second photo in the first post & compare to your photos:
http://www.tractorbynet.com/forums/owning-operating/192378-moose-detail.html?highlight=moose
Any chance the snow fell after the moose snacked on your trees?

 

[JerryK]

Maybe it was Bullwinkle, and his buddy Rocky finally taught him to fly .........

 

[ohno]

Take a look at the second photo in the first post & compare to your photos:
http://www.tractorbynet.com/forums/owning-operating/192378-moose-detail.html?highlight=moose
Any chance the snow fell after the moose snacked on your trees?

That seams to be our elusive tree debarker. There was fresh snow that would have covered the tracks.

 

[awhelan]

I live in this area, and am infact, about 300' from the eastern boundary of the park at this very moment . We spend the weekends here at our hunt camp skidooing and hiking.
That is more than likely a moose rub, but it is more common to see them from deer. In fact the bush here will be littered with deer rubs.
They rub in the fall at the beginning of the rut to pull the velvet from there horns and deposit there sent as well.

Google "moose rub" https://www.google.ca/search?q=moos...d=0CCoQyjc&ei=GO_EVKrvO5O3yATzroCQBA#imgdii=_

and a description 6 moose behaviours - Outdoor Canada

 

[RobertBrown]

Teeth marks......

I'm going with moose. I don't know much about moose behavior, but I just learned a little bit and based on that, I have deduced that the there was a moose that entered the road and stopped to use the tree for what moose use trees for. Perhaps the part of the moose that causes tracks to be formed was in the road or tracks left by you. The moose then used the road for a distance and exited a ways from where you were looking for sign.
You disturbed the track left by this creature when approaching, you noticed the tree as you went passed and returned to view it disturbing the tracks the moose left when beyond these trees.

Umm.... "skidooing" is a verb?

Urban Dictionary: skidooing