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Open Space^TM magazine

Check out the QEII Open Space magazine, March 2010 (PDF 2.5MB)

Download March 2010 articles:

Gisborne: Fencing a water catchment

Tararua: Replacing ineffective fencing

Covenants protecting Olearia shrubland and moths dependent on Olearia shrubs

Wilding pine control

Forest fragments: Objectives of restoration and management

Coromandel pā site covenants

Kaharoa Kokako: Amplifying New Zealand's original song

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Next issue: Late July 2010

Goats - how to stop them crossing fences

Goats are sufficiently nimble to use a fence stay as a ready-made highway over a fence. This can happen where the stay juts out from the fence.

The goats simply walk up the sloping surface of the stay, which brings them high enough to take a hop and jump onto the post and over.

If you are finding goats sampling the sumptuous goodies in your well-fenced covenant, this could be how they are getting in.

Fortunately, there’s a simple solution.

Run a wire from the base of the stay to near the top of the post. This will put any would-be climber off balance.

Photo below: This shows where to run the wire from the stay to the post.

Open Space^TM Magazine No. 64, July 2005 © QEII National Trust

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