Re: [aroid-l] elephant fences was: Woodchuck problem

From: "Marge Talt" <mtalt at hort.net> on 2004.07.26 at 07:52:59(11817) Realize this is not aroid related, but am very curious about what one would use to make a fence that would stop a determined elephant. Marge Talt, zone 7 Maryland mtalt@hort.net +More Editor: Gardening in Shade ----------------------------------------------- Current Article: Corydalis http://www.suite101.com/welcome.cfm/shade_gardening ------------------------------------------------ Complete Index of Articles by Category and Date http://mtalt.hort.net/article-index.html ------------------------------------------------ All Suite101.com garden topics : http://www.suite101.com/topics.cfm/635 ---------- At the ultimate extreme, at least two national parks in Thailand have had to go to the astronomical expense of installing anti-elephant fences to protect their nursery plantations from roaming herbs (elephant populations in Thailand ore increasing at teh same time the forests are shrinking - a bad combination). Mercifully elephants aren't known to burrow and haven't yet figured that they could climb over the barrier if they had a step ladder....

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