Two years ago, I conducted an interview in this magazine with Peter Smallidge and Brett Chedzoy to gauge the feasibility of using slash walls as a tool to deter deer in timber stands being regenerated (Volume 58, No. 6, Nov/Dec 2020-the complete textof that interview can be accessed in the magazine archives at nyfoa.org). I recently caught up with each of them again to follow up on that conversation, and to assess the current status of the slash wall experiments at Cornell’s Amot Teaching and Research Forest in Van Etten, NY. What follows is a lightly edited version of their responses, with my questions in italics.
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