On 2019-01-02 9:28 p.m., U.S. Janet B. wrote:
>
> The Japanese Yew is a common landscaping plant. Each year we have
> several elk, dear and pronghorns die during the winter because it was
> available as food. A year or so ago 7 beautiful elk died on someone's
> hillside yard because they ate the landscaping shrubs. The plant is
> also toxic to pets.
> If you have chosen this plant for landscaping on your property you
> should get rid of it and replace it with something else.
> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taxus_cuspidata
> Janet US
>
In England, Yew trees are pretty well confined to churchyards as their
toxicity was recognised by livestock farmers centuries ago.