Protecting a Resource

This image shows part of a fence enclosing a "lagoon" or small pond on Spanish Banks Creek in Pacific Spirit Regional Park in Vancouver. The pond is spawning grounds for Coho and Chub salmon, two of the five varieties of Pacific salmon. While I think in Lancaster County it would be more common to enclose the area in chain link fence, perhaps also with barbed wire, the solution here, while not foolproof and probably not as durable, is stacked split rails -- this keeps dogs and children out, and is not particularly aesthetically offensive. Also, one can see down into the pond from a trail running uphill to the right of this photograph.