It's neat to read about such topics like this for myself as there are such differences in our habitat, I find it interesting. The only type of pine that grows where I am is Jackpine and deer definately don't eat it, nor does it provide a hell of alot of cover when it is mature. They will use the white and black spruce as cover when old man winter hits........like now. They seem to eat the lichens on the lower branches of the black spruce when there aren't any good food sources nearby. Thick mixed cover such as spruce, tamarack, and black poplar seem to be the best cover up here. I guess it doesn't matter too awful much b/c most of the year they seek the areas with the most underbrush, alders, willows, pincherries, chokecherries, saskatoons etc.. Those are what they browse on as well. I'd like to come down there just to look at the different trees, I love trees.