Protecting plants with fences and cages

In my previous gardens I'm learned to deal with slugs, snails, beetles, powdery mildew, blight and so on. But around my current property, with lots of native plants and some fruit trees, serious measures are necessary to protect plants from big creatures who incessantly chomp, damage, disfigure, pull down and sometimes kill plants.

Tall and sturdy fence are necessary for orchard and garden such as a tall, sturdy chainlink fence to turn away big pests, such as elk, deer, cattle, and coyotes.

For native plants that have grown past knee-high I make cages out of wire fence material up to six feet tall that will discourage deer. Even though deer can chomp off branches that stick out, they still can't reach the taller stems, allowing the shrubs to grow tall. Elk may not be as easily deterred.

For plants that make thickets, such as Red Ozier dogwood., spirea, flowering current and Paicific nine-bark, fences t\all enough to discourage larger four-legged neighbors are effective. These allow a plant to grow in every direction with a minimum of loss.

I'm learning that these thicket-building native plants are best planted close together and surrounded by a fence, as tall as feasible. The tallest fence wire availal it 72" so I collect tsuch plants close to each other.