Franklin Lakes Trying to find a solution to deer impalements in the borough, officials appear to be straddling the fence between animal protection and practicality.

Council members and officials at a Feb. 4 meeting favored passing a law that would prevent property owners from erecting spiked fences in the future, but would not require residents to remove such fences that are already standing.

Some deer have attempted to leap over the fences, but instead have fallen short and landed on the sharp spikes atop the fences, leading to a slow death.

Officials said they need to consider the cost for property owners to remove fences, which caused four deer deaths last month and an estimated six annually in recent years, according to Mayor Frank Bivona.

"You have a situation here where someone's spent an enormous amount of money to put up some of these fences," Bivona said. "What's our ability to go back and say, 'You can't have this fence,' after we allowed them to put this fence in?"

Borough Administrator Gregory Hart said the borough currently has no ordinance that is specific to spikes or fences.

However, Bivona said, the borough has attempted "to hang [its] hat on" an existing ordinance as a means to get residents to remove spiked fences.

The borough's current property maintenance ordinance prohibits "exterior surfaces or parts of buildings or structures containing sharp, rough or projecting surfaces or objects which might cause injury to persons coming in contact therewith."

"If there's something that's egregious out there, I think that we should go after it," Bivona said.

Bivona said there are many spiked fences in the borough, but many of them have small spikes that are not a threat to deer. He said the new ordinance would target fences that have "big impaling-type spikes."

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Citing security and recommendations by law enforcement, district officials approved the plan in February that would place the fences around each of the five properties.

Recently contractors began removing vegetation from areas around where work is to be done. Actual construction on the fences is expected to begin once school is out for the summer.

At a Friday, June 13 afternoon Facility Committee meeting, about two dozen residents attended the meeting with many of them speaking up and raising concerns over the project.

My concern is that the fence plan is going to interfere with our enjoyment of our property and detract from the value of our property, said Berwyn resident Rob Adams.

Other speakers raised concern over the costs of the project when the district has complained about financial constraints.

You really need to convince stakeholders that a 5-foot chain link fence is worth $250,000 when we have such financial woes, said Kathleen Johnson.

Several residents also brought up the idea questioning the effectiveness of a five-foot fence in keeping out an intruder when one resident said, Theres hardly anybody in this room that if they wanted to get over that 5-foot fence couldnt get over it.

Johnson also expressed concern over the security and the potential for an evacuation of students.

We are concerned about emergency situations. While I have been told and many of us have been told in our constant questions over the past several weeks there is no scenario that would require all of the children to be evacuated from a school property. Thats just not an answer that parents want to hear. We understand that evacuation plans cannot be publicly divulged. We understand the details of those plans cannot be publicly divulged. Were not asking for that. What were asking for is confidence that when you completely enclose a school property that you can get our children off [school property]. It does not take a creative imagination to envision a scenario where we need to the children off [school property] and we need to get them off quickly, Johnson said. Continued...

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WYCKOFF Property owners along Route 208 with damaged and dilapidated fencing near the highway are going to be notified they are expected to fix or replace those barricades, according to Mayor Douglas Christie.

Some of the dilapidated and damaged fencing may be on a homeowners property or in the state highways right of way, Police Chief Benjamin Fox said. Regardless, homeowners are responsible for maintenance of fences, he said.

Christie said the broken fencing is presenting a bad impression of Wyckoff to travelers who use the busy 208 corridor. At the April 1 Township Committee meeting, he described the area as a "total ruin" in need of immediate attention. He attributed the damaged fencing to snow plowing and long-term wear and tear.

Fox noted that his department received eight phone calls from residents along Route 208 during a mid-February snowstorm stating that the New Jersey Department of Transportation plow operators had damaged or knocked down fencing. Prior to that storm, Fox noted, a lot of fencing along Wyckoff s section of the state highway already was in disrepair.

Fox said that he has reached out to the eight residents who called and provided them with an NJDOT claim form to file for damages, along with a phone number.

"Clearly there needs to be a cleanup and repair along that stretch," Fox said.

At the committees March 21 meeting, Committeeman Kevin Rooney said that Fox raised the issue of fence damaged by state snow plow operators.

In an interview April 2, Rooney said that the committee instructed local Code Enforcement Officer Fred Depken to "take note of where fences have been damaged" and send an "abatement notice" to homeowners. Rooney said that approximately 24 properties are involved. He said homeowners would be told to "repair it, replace it, or remove it."

He said homeowners filing for damages with the DOT and those making their own repairs would be given "a reasonable" time to complete work.

"We have received more and more inquiries from residents about this. It is an eyesore and people are just becoming more aware. Now is the time to take care of it," said Rooney.

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THE war of words between Federal Member for Maranoa Bruce Scott and state Agriculture Minister John McVeigh over pest animal funding continues, following Mr McVeigh's announcement at Longreach last week that none of the $5.6 million allocated for pest control in Queensland's drought declared areas could be spent on fencing.

Mr Scott has strongly advocated for the state to spend its federal allocation on hard infrastructure, saying that conventional methods of control were failing.

On at least two occasions last week Mr McVeigh stated that the guidelines of the federal-state pest management funding agreement precluded the state putting its allocation towards check fences.

"We have had distracting commentary in recent weeks," Mr McVeigh told a gathering of proponents for the 1300km check fence proposal.

"Just to clarify, the project guidelines say, thou shalt not spend money on fences."

The following morning a similar comment was front and centre at the meeting called by Mr McVeigh and attended principally by mayors and wild dog advisory group chairmen to discuss how the federal funding would be allocated.

"There is no money for fencing," he told the meeting.

"I imagine the federal government thinking is that in times of drought we need to hit dogs hard while they're vulnerable."

In the wake of these comments Mr Scott said he had received advice from his federal colleague Barnaby Joyce's department that there was nothing in the agreement that prevented money being spent on fencing.

"I was told that it was a matter for the Queensland government whether they wanted to apply a portion of the $5.6m to fences.

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Dennis Tweet spent much of Thursday trudging through messy fields on his farm to fix a fence damaged by flooding that followed this week's heavy rainfalls.

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He spent a lot of time splashing and occasionally stumbling through a ditch. In some places, the water was knee deep.

"Oh, golly, I hit a deep hole there," Tweet said after one misstep.

Rain and hail have made a mess of thousands of acres of Minnesota farmland, so much so that U.S. Agriculture Department officials are out assessing the toll. They don't have a state-wide damage estimate yet, but farmers don't need an official assessment to know that the storms have created a lot of extra work.

Since the series of storms began Saturday, some farmers in southwest Minnesota have measured nearly a foot of rainfall.

The rain caused a creek running through Tweet's farm to overflow. As he slogged through his fields on the way to the broken fence, flood water bashed his fence with all sorts of debris before he spotted a six-foot branch tangled in the barb wire.

"I can just as well get these trees out of here so that they won't have to do this to me again," Tweet said.

After he wrestled the branch free, he tossed it over the fence into the ditch.

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HUNDREDS of Chile without tickets broke through fences or climbed over barriers into the stadium.

STADIUM staff struggled to deal with a serious failure in security measures before Spain's World Cup match against Chile at the Maracana.

Hundreds of Chile without tickets broke through fences or climbed over barriers into the stadium.

A number of the intruders who charged through the main media centre were detained by officials but many others appeared to have made their way into the stands after breaking down a temporary wall.

Meanwhile, thousands of Chile fans without tickets remained on the roads outside the stadium but organisers said kick-off would not be delayed.

A joint statement from FIFA and the local organising committee said "at least 85 intruders" had forced their way into the stadium but that none had made it to the seating area for the match.

The statement said: "Ahead of the Spain versus Chile match at the Maracana, a group of individuals without tickets violently forced entry into the stadium, breaking fences and overrunning security. They were contained by the security and did not make it to the seats.

"The situation was brought under control quickly and at least 85 intruders were detained according the military police of Rio.

"The organisers of the FIFA World Cup condemn these acts of violence and we will communicate further information and measures to be taken in due course."

According to Brazilian media, one person - a disabled woman who is a Chile fan - was injured.

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Donkeys and Maremma dogs are the latest tricks farmers are using in Queensland to protect their flocks of sheep from dingoes and wild dogs, but traditional dog netting fences maybe the most effective.

Early last century when sheep first were brought to Western Queensland farmers had to come up solutions for dingoes and what occurred was proliferation of seven foot high wire netting fences.

Farmers would fence a paddock and then shoot or trap all the dogs and then bring in the sheep. It was so effective that dingoes virtually disappeared from many areas.

The dog fences were then redundant and as they collapsed they were replaced by traditional livestock fences only one metre high.

Now with the recent increase in wild dog and dingo numbers farmers are looking to the old ways for solutions.

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