Wildlife Friendly Fencing Initiative To Start In Summer 2022

Fences are normally used to mark property lines, or to contain livestock among other things.

However some things can’t be contained, resulting in damage to the fence, so one Sheridan area nonprofit group is trying to install something new.

This summer the Sheridan Community Land Trust will be launching a wildlife friendly fencing initiative.

Wildlife tend to jump over, crawl under, pass or fly through current fences that are set, and when they do, there’s a possibility the fence can be damaged.

Meghan Kent is the conservation program manager with the Sheridan Community Land Trust and was on public pulse earlier this week.

She says the new fencing could help landowners save on costs from having to repair or replace the current ones.

“By making the fences a little bit shorter and then making a little bit more room for animals to pass underneath, by making it more visible, so that birds won’t run into those barbed wires as easily, we can make it a lot easier for animals to move through the fence, without compromising the utility of the fence.”

Kent says the fences will be put in particular places based on wildlife studies and not placed randomly.