Puddock Hill Journal #24: Compassion meets frustration when our young trees get mowed down. Spring. The trees soften. The grass greens. The peepers serenade. We begin to catch glimpses of deer fawns, spotted, delicate, innocent, unsteady on their legs. A doe has been hanging about in the dedicated open space outside our deer fence, owned […]
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Good Fences Make Good Natives
Puddock Hill Journal #8: Deer Fences and Consequences A couple months ago, I came across an article published by the Yale School of the Environment on “How the Boom in Fences Is Harming Wildlife.” While the article focused mostly on expansive fences disrupting large landscapes such as the desert at our southern border, the Mongolian […]