We have thornless honey locust that we planted >30 years ago and the seed pods are great wildlife food. I leave the seedlings nearby if they don't have thorns (seedings are >95% thornless)..
My neighbors (in the city) have a nice thornless Honey Locust right beside my driveway. My kids used to take the hard seeds to school to give "worry stones" to their friends before fidget spinners were invented!
My deer also like to eat the seed ponds, especially when they are sweet. I assume I have lots of other wildlife that munches on them too.
The Honey Locust trees are also the favorites on my farm for deer rubs when they are about 4" in diameter. At that size, the bark is very smooth and the deer seem to love them. Sometimes when I go to clear older HL trees, I can see the healed damage on the trunk where it had been a "deer rub" tree 10-20 years earlier.
I would gladly make a deal with my deer that they can eat all of the HL pods they want, as long as they girdle and kill all of the subsequent trees by performing a 360 degree rub.
