Give Mother Nature a Helping Hand:
Use Plantra Treeshelters get natural hardwood regeneration off to a successful start.

Next time you see a mature 100 or 200 year old oak tree, this about this: When that tree got started there were perhaps 500,000 to 1,000,000 white-tailed deer in the entire country.

Today there are states where hunters harvest more than 500,000 deer per year, without keeping pace with reproduction and without reducing the herd size.

And when that 100 to 200 year old oak tree got start, it probably benefitted from fire; oaks can withstand brush fires which kill competing vegetation.

Now think about this: When is the last time you were walking through the woods and saw a 5 to 15 year old oak tree? With the deer populations we have today, there aren’t many.

Putting Plantra Treeshelters on natural oak seedlings…

• Protects them from deer browse
• Shield them from herbicide spray, so you can provide the aggressive weed control they need to thrive (you can fill the ecological function of fire)

Using Plantra Weed Mats instead of herbicides give you more complete control of competing vegetation, and conserves soil moisture for optimal growth.