BC Parks, Porcupines, and Chicken Wire
On some of the pages for the parks in BC, the authors say that porcupines are a problem and that one should put chicken wire around the vehicle so that the animals do not chew on the rubber hoses and ...
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profdant139 wrote:
Powder Pig, do the porkies bother the vehicles in campgrounds at night? How would the animal know if you are out backpacking or asleep in the trailer nearby? (On second thought, they could probably hear me snoring. That'll scare them away for sure!)
The porkies wouldn't know or care if you were in the vehicle or not but none of the trailheads I am thinking of have campgrounds located there. We have never had a porcupine issue in any National or Provincial Park campground we have stayed at but I have had issues with them while staying in alpine cabins---they chew on plywood if it is exposed. I have a friend who had to go out in the middle of the night to do battle with a porkie which was chewing on the underside of his camper in a more remote Forestry campsite. We don't see nearly as many porcupines out on the trail as we used to see but they still are around albeit in smaller numbers.
