From my experience, deer like the longer leafed pines like the white over the short leaf pines like the spruce. This year I lost a cherry tree, apple tree and peach tree to browsing, and another apple and peach to rubbing. I let the weeds grow around most of my pines, which seemed to mostly keep the deer away (or the trees hidden.) I lost some to rabbits, but not too many. Of all 250 trees I put out last year, the only things doing well are the pines and the sycamores. Everything else succumbed to the drought or critters.
