I can't tell you how many times I've been down the logging roads on my place, and find the cedars rubbed...very few of them there on the road, but they pretty much all get rubbed. Last year there were two little spindly cedars within 20 yds of each other, both rubbed, while not another tree within 100 yds was attacked. Something about those cedars I think still.

By the time rubbed tree diameter increased to the size of a man's thigh, species choice was down to just one--cedar.

From my decade-long rub study I found that the larger the rubbed tree, the fewer the species chosen by bucks. Small rubbed tree species basically matched the species available. I've seen small rubs on trees and sapling of every species bucks had access to. But as the diameter of the rubbed tree increased, species choices declined. By the time rubbed trees increased to the size of a Coke can, bucks were down to using only 5 species (beech, maple, pine, cedar and poplar). By the time rubbed tree diameter increased to the size of a man's thigh, species choice was down to just one--cedar.