What are your opinions on fencing? We want to fence our 2.5 acre property to mitigate deer/bear/cougar and possibly keep in livestock.
Initially we were thinking deer fencing, but recently high tensile electric has been brought to my attention.
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When I bought our property, 12 years ago. It came with a 8' tall moose fence surrounding 5 acres. It was a mix of welded wire and woven wire fencing stapled to living trees. They occasionally installed a wooden post where needed. They ran three sawmill slabs horizontally between each tree or post. The welded wire has not held up. It rusts and breaks at the welds. The woven wire is very durable. I've felled trees on top of it, all you have to do is replace the slab and bend the wire back. Replacing or renailing slabs is an annual chore, but they're free, so it's a good trade off.
A lot of people up here in Northern Alberta that raise Elk and Bison use 8’ high page wire that has about a 6” square grid on the top 6’ and about a 3”x6” grid for the bottom two feet for keeping out smaller critters. Check out what my buddy caught on his game cam this weekend about 5 miles from where I sit: 
I generally think electric is best for regularly moving animals, not as permanent fence. Never experimented with it as a perimeter fence though.
Batteries die so you’d want it to be hard wired somehow and designed as resiliently as possible (think trees falling on it, etc)
