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

From: "Peter Boyce" <peterboyce at myjaring.net> on 2004.07.26 at 21:22:13(11826) 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 +More ----- Original Message ----- 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 > 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 > > ---------- > 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.... > > > > [ Scanned by JARING E-Mail Virus Scanner ( http://www.jaring.my ) ] >

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