Logan • A new study finds a Utah aspen grove considered the world’s largest living organism is continuing to decline despite new fencing designed to keep out mule deer whose appetites are blamed its deterioration.
The Logan Herald Journal reports that two Utah State University professors found that some fencing constructed in 2013 is keeping the deer from eating the trees, but additional barriers put up in 2014 don’t seem to have protected the colony known as Pando.
Utah State extension professor Darren McAvoy says that's likely because falling trees have knocked over the fence, allowing the deer back inside.