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  • From: "Ernest Plutko" <ernestplutko@wiktel.com>
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  • Subject: Re: [NAFEX] Black Bears and Apples
  • Date: Tue, 15 Mar 2011 15:01:24 -0500

Electric fences stop black bears. Use multistrand wires. Bears are
destructive to apple trees as I have discovered in my yard.
Minnesota zone 2

---- Original Message ----
From: jlemmett@iinet.com
To: nafex@lists.ibiblio.org
Subject: RE: [NAFEX] Black Bears and Apples
Date: Tue, 15 Mar 2011 11:34:05 -0700

> I have a series of apple orchard terraces with 9 foot fences to keep
>the deer out. The lower 6 feet is heavy gauge steel dear and rabbit
>fencing. The upper 3 feet is is the heaviest gauge plastic deer
>fencing. This fall a mother black bear and her cub decided to
>harvest the apples. They climbed up and tore down the top portion of
>the fence and jumped into the apple trees. The mother broke 3"
>branches off the larger trees. Of the 40 trees on that terrace, I
>think they stripped about 1/3 of the apples before I got to them.
>
> While it would be legal to shoot them here, I am very loath to do
>that. Will an electric fence deter bears? Having seen bears sitting
>eating honey with thousands of bees on them, I wonder if they would
>notice an electric fence at all. This coming fall, I am sure the
>bears will remember the apples. In addition they will probably
>discover the other four terraces with more. Has anyone else dealt
>with this problem? Are there any suggestions out there? Thank.
>
> John
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