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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Hello Canufnet members,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Our civic tree nursery, located in the interior of the city, has had substantial damage to nursery trees due to rabbits. We have had some damage in previous years but never to
this degree.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">We have been using different types of protection around the tree trunks to find out what works best considering cost and labour. Trees we protected with cages of wire, plastic
or burlap are working, unfortunately, a spray we tried did not work. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">We recently tried live trapping to remove rabbits but that had zero results.
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">From now on, we will be protecting trees as we plant but in the meantime we are wanting to decrease the population in a reasonably humane way and are curious how other nurseries
are dealing with this.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Thanks for any information you can share,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Lorilee<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.25in;text-autospace:none"><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#00594E;mso-fareast-language:EN-CA">Lorilee Braaten | 306-975-2757<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
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City of Saskatoon | 1101 Ave P North | Saskatoon, SK S7L 7K6<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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