Woodchucks

• Woodchucks or groundhogs damage lawns by foraging on vegetable gardens and gnawing on fruit trees, but can be discouraged by methods such as sprinkling Epsom salt on plants to make them taste foul.
  
  

Geese

• The large size of migrating groups of geese compounds lawn problems by causing extensive plant and lawn damage. They can be deterred with visual harassment, including hand-held windmills.
  
  

Rabbits

• Rabbit damage is readily identified by the angled cuts on plants, with fences or removing productive cover such as brush piles, being the best forms of deterrent.
  
  

Deer

• Deer can be especially destructive to lawns and gardens, including rutting bucks that can permanently damage ornamental trees by stripping bark, and extensive grazing from which plants cannot recover.
  
  

Moles

• One way to control moles, which dig extensive surface tunnels and disfigure lawns, is by packing down the soil with a roller, making the habitat less desirable.