Comments on: The Bears and the Bees http://leslieland.com/2008/05/the-bears-and-the-bees/ in Kitchen and Garden and all around the House Thu, 09 Feb 2012 14:52:42 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: leslie http://leslieland.com/2008/05/the-bears-and-the-bees/comment-page-1/#comment-1079 leslie Sat, 24 May 2008 14:05:11 +0000 http://leslieland.com/?p=408#comment-1079 Hi Margaret - so glad to see you here! Is the serious fence all 'round your property? We finally ended up completely surrounding ourselves with 7 foot black plastic deer netting, which seems to work pretty well against THEM, but it obviously wouldn't bother a bear. And shutting the gates across both ends of the circular driveway each night (multiple times if we go out) is driving us slightly batty. Do you have electronic controls? Hi Margaret – so glad to see you here!

Is the serious fence all ’round your property? We finally ended up completely surrounding ourselves with 7 foot black plastic deer netting, which seems to work pretty well against THEM, but it obviously wouldn’t bother a bear.

And shutting the gates across both ends of the circular driveway each night (multiple times if we go out) is driving us slightly batty. Do you have electronic controls?

]]> By: Margaret Roach http://leslieland.com/2008/05/the-bears-and-the-bees/comment-page-1/#comment-1078 Margaret Roach Fri, 23 May 2008 22:05:19 +0000 http://leslieland.com/?p=408#comment-1078 I live surrounded by Taconic State Park land, which means campers not far away and dumpsters for park/camp debris and...guess what?...bear heaven. Now that this area is not so rural but almost suburban in spots, it's like a deli counter for these astonishing animals, and come visit they do. Come for the bird feeders (which I abandoned 6 or 7 years ago because of bears), come for the trash (which I cannot put out the night before pickup, except in dead winter), come for stuff in cars and anything else that smells or looks good. So I have a 7-foot, heavy-gauge metal fence like a nursery or tree farm would, to shut out deer and also bear, and I shut the gates tight each night, and just hope nobody figures it out. Nobody large and furry, I mean. I live surrounded by Taconic State Park land, which means campers not far away and dumpsters for park/camp debris and…guess what?…bear heaven. Now that this area is not so rural but almost suburban in spots, it’s like a deli counter for these astonishing animals, and come visit they do. Come for the bird feeders (which I abandoned 6 or 7 years ago because of bears), come for the trash (which I cannot put out the night before pickup, except in dead winter), come for stuff in cars and anything else that smells or looks good.
So I have a 7-foot, heavy-gauge metal fence like a nursery or tree farm would, to shut out deer and also bear, and I shut the gates tight each night, and just hope nobody figures it out. Nobody large and furry, I mean.

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