ORIGINAL: SwampCollie
ORIGINAL: aeroslinger
ORIGINAL: SwampCollie
High fence is one hell of an expensive thing. In most parts of the world, surrounding your 1000+ acres with 8' high fence that would keep a deer out/in would cost more than your 1000+ acres did. In fact, I throughly suspect that is the plain and simple reason that you don't see more high fences.
I'm guessing you haven't traveled much through Texas. Lots of high fences and more going up yearly. And more and more are less than 1000 acres, some considerably. And there are quite a few people who will spend money when they think they can make it back. I can't see it going away anytime soon. At least here in Texas. There is a lot of scrub land that's not much good for anything but deer, turkey, and hogs. Not a lot of way to make money off of it.
Believe it or not... there is a world outside of Texas....
Actually, I'm from Oklahoma and am quite old enough to understand the size of the world. I reference Texas because that's where I'm living NOW and you seem to have a hard time deciphering my post. Try reading it again. I said the larger HF'd ranches were, IMO, no different that free range. However, the problem I am seeing HERE in Texas, is that much, much smaller tracts are being high fenced. Apparently, you have not been through Texas much because if you had, you would possibly have seen the multitude of HF's. But, Captain Obvious, you only comment was that fencing cost a lot of money. Wow. In my 30 years of construction, I'd never have guessed. Thanks for the heads up. There, does that help. Last time I checked, they still spoke and wrote english the same or pretty close even outside of Texas.