The California Fish & Wildlife advised us to install electric fencing to keep the bears out of our yard and home when we started having bear problems. We spent thousands of dollars on the project. It not only failed to keep the bears out, they chewed the electrical insulators off the fences and tearing down the wires.
Far from being a problem solver, Ryan Welch’s electrification business is really a protracted campaign to convince South Lake Tahoe residents to conspire to violate the law. Right, electrified fences are illegal in the City of South Lake Tahoe, and that includes Bear Mats!
City Code Section 6.85.030
iii. General Wall Standards.
(II) Prohibited Types. Walls shall not include razor wire, chicken wire,
electrified fences, pallet fences, trailers or other similar storage units, spiked
fences, paper, visqueen plastic and similar materials.
v. Prohibited Types. Fencing shall not include barbed wire (see exception,
subsection 9 below), razor wire, chicken wire, electrified fences, pallet fences,
trailers or other similar storage units, spiked fences, paper, visqueen plastic
Let’s stop all the lies and misinformation coming from the bear advocates
It didn’t take long for the bears to destroy our electric fence
We installed the most powerful electric fence energizers we could find. The bears just tore the wires and insulators off.
I couldn’t figure out if the bears thought the electric insulators tasted good, or if they were just biting back, but many of them were chewed up by the bears while electricity was flowing through the wires on them. Perhaps just pulling them off the fences.
Should we let the bears make us prisoners in our own homes?
If you can’t have any food in your house or leave the window open and by the time you put electric wires across the windows and doors and electric mats in front of the entrances, you might as well be in prison.
The Tahoe Bear 