How to Prevent Chipmunks away from your yard and landscaping

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The best way to protect your land from a chipmunk invasion is to erect some sort of fencing around it. The idea is to add a physical barrier between the animal and your home, and fencing is the quickest, easiest and best place to start.



A fence can keep out a wide range of nuisance wildlife from your land, including groundhog, snakes, raccoons, opossums, and even the chipmunk, if you erect your fences properly. By properly, we mean that you should have an underground protection layer, as well as the fence itself above the ground, and this is because these creatures, along with a wide range of others, can dig and burrow underground. In fact, chipmunks spend quite a lot of their time down there, creating burrows that can extend for many feet without you even realizing it. As you can imagine, this burrowing and digging can disrupt the stability of the land, and if you have a building on top of that, even the building safety can be compromised.

Mesh fencing or wiring can give you that layer of underground protection, and cal also be used to protect other areas of your land also. The bigger fence can go around the perimeter, for example, with the smaller mesh wiring reserved for underground and around specific hotspots, such as flower gardens or spots where fruits and vegetables may be growing.

Mesh wiring is probably not the best choice to use everywhere if you want the most aesthetically pleasing result, but is certainly one of the most economical choices. Used to keep out a wide variety of wild critters, using this above and below-ground protection and fencing system will help to protect your land from ALL wild animal invaders, and not just the little chipmunk.

Read my How to Get Rid of Chipmunks guide.
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How To Guide: do it yourself! - Advice on saving money by doing wildlife removal yourself.
Guide: How much does wildlife removal cost? - Analysis of wildlife control prices.