We were fencing, testing each other.
While plans for a "virtual fence," a test project involving integrated high-tech cameras and sensors, have been delayed for months by technical glitches, physical barriers are going up quickly and are remaking stretches of vast border wilderness.
Eleven of those workers gathered at the chain-link fence near the test equipment to watch.
Deer paced the test fence line relatively frequently (a proportion of 0.09 scan observations overall) but significantly less when deer were separated by fences E or C compared to L, W or D (overall difference between fence types, P<0.001).
Twelve forage maize (Zea mais) fields, with a history of badger damage, were selected from these farms and the test fence erected at six of them.
At the White House gate, he gripped the fence, as if testing its strength, and his eyes narrowed in calculation: he went into the Huaorani zone, as writer had come to think of it.
Various porosity combinations in the upper and lower fence halves were tested.
Analysis of behaviour patterns across the first day and the 3 days of exposure suggested that the novelty of the test fences, rather than the designs per se, influenced the behaviour of the deer.
By building the fence, they are testing not just their opponent's reaction but the international community's too.
For more than an hour, we struggle to drive the garden stakes firmly into the snow, and each time we test the fence by pushing at the cord, a stake pulls loose and the cord slackens, preventing the triggering of the mousetrap.
A warning sign is seen on a fence surrounding the Trinity test site.
