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To:
Sent: Wednesday, July 28, 2004 10:07 AM
Subject: Re: [aroid-l] elephant fences was: Woodchuck problem
> Hi All,
> A cheaper alternative would be twenty or thirty dollars worth of rubber
mice
> (approx. a dollar each as a cats toy. They are available in most pet
stores)
> sprinkled amongst the perennial garden should do the trick. ..everyone
> knows pachyderms fear mice...hehe
>
> Enid
>
> Natural Selections Exotics
> 1401 SW 1 st Ave
> Ft Lauderdale, FL 33315
> www.NSExotics.com
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Peter Boyce"
> To:
> Sent: Monday, July 26, 2004 5:22 PM
> Subject: Re: [aroid-l] elephant fences was: Woodchuck problem
>
>
> > Hi Marge
> >
> > Steel 15 x 20 cm, 6 m long I-beams (known as RSJ's in the UK) buried and
> > concreted 3 meters into the ground at 1 meter intevals and then
disguised
> by
> > coating them in a concrete-soil mixture that very quickly becomes moss-
> and
> > lichen covered.
> >
> > Pete
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: "Marge Talt"
> > To:
> > Sent: Monday, July 26, 2004 3:52 PM
> > Subject: Re: [aroid-l] elephant fences was: Woodchuck problem
> >
> >
> > > 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
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> > > From: Peter Boyce
> > > 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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