|
The view from a newly-paved road in a subdevelopment.
The combination of mountains and valleys is ideal for animals such as
elk.
A fancy, landscaped entrance to a neighborhood, complete with bronze
coyotes.
A behind-the-scenes look at the fancy facade.
A high-end elk fence.
What's the point of having bushes when you have to wrap them in chicken
wire?
You'd be hard-pressed to find so much welded wire fencing and so many
steel t-posts anywhere else.
Another example that just doesn't work.
. . . two pieces of welded wire fencing, each formed into a cylinder, and
attached to each other to form a barrier approximately 7 feet high.
These aspen may not look like much now, but at least they're protected!
|
|
Estes Park has all the trappings of a tourist destination.
The real thing strolling through a parking lot. Habituation is
the striking
characteristic of a visit to Estes Park.
... And an even closer look shows the aspen wrapped in a net-like
material with plastic fasteners.
Everything, everywhere, needs to be enclosed.
The beasts: perfectly content in a suburban side yard.
Here's an attractive example: the requisite welded wire
fencing--NOT effective for giraffe-like animals like elk--including
white stripes and a thickly-wrapped tree.
Here's the best solution on display in Estes Park this day. It consists of . . .
*
* *
Estes Park is a small town within a valley of approximately 10,000
year-round residents. It is surrounded by mountains and park land
and is known as a tourist destination (155 lodging establishments) and
home to wildlife such as deer, elk, bighorn sheep, and coyotes. It is unusual
politically in that the extreme wildlife populations
involve city, county, state, and federal governments.
In the western suburbs of Denver--Conifer, Evergreen, Golden,
etc.--wildlife and humans are frequently in conflict but it is nothing
like in Estes Park.
|