burrowing animals

I am just setting up my (first) 14X16 hobby greenhouse. I want to take preventative measures in the initial building process. Our property is in the country on acreage and we have and encourage all kinds of wildlife. The soil is pure beach sand to 40 feet.......I am thinking to dig a trench 18 to 24 inches deep aroung the outside perimeter to be filled with some sort of barrier...... mesh or wire frame or ???.......any suggestions will be welcomed from others who have successfully done the same......

Chicken wire works for me. I have gophers and an "endangered" black tail prarie dog. The don't come up underneath BUT one prarie dog does visit. He really likes strawberries if he can find a spot to sneak in. If I even leave the door open taking stuff in and out I sometimes find him inside.

do u just unroll it and put 1 single layer at a 1 to 2 ft depth? .....and that works?....bet you're in sand too in Arizona.........

yeah.......gophers, moles, rabbits, armadillo ,opposum are the ones I know that burrow........also have fox, coyote, bobcat,squirrels, deer, rattlesnake, copperheads, and water snakes..........I moved into their territory, and every once in a while they let me know who is boss

I have all the critters plus javalina, skunks, racoons and deer. We just put a trench a couple foot deep around and backfilled against the chicken wire. Had to do the same for chickens run. Thankfully I am in an area with reasonably good(little alkali) soil and not too much sand. Some parts of southern AZ have a really hard clay soil. We use topsoil for beds at mils house. Guess we all have some quirks. I sometimes am very jealous of people who get rain instead of electric bills. BUT then most of them also get snow, tornados or hurricanes. Our growing season is very long most years with enough "chill time" to grow peaches, cherries and apples, figs and pomagranites. Only an hour to fresh citrus. What more could I want?

we have had a serious drought for 2 years in a row here. I have 4 ponds that would be totally dry if we didn't have wells to run into them...electricity to run them is high and we only try to keep enough water in them to keep the fish alive....
Do you have winter snows? are you anywhere near the mountains?.Ooooooo I guess not, in southern AZ..... I have traveled a lot thru AZ ......my last trip about 5 years ago was to Lake Havasau.....I don't recognize Cochise, probably just forgot with old age....
Fruit doesn't do too well here, my old sand is so sorry .......alkaline with no nutrients other than what I supplement and of course the water runs straight thru........In the immediate flower beds I have added peat and topsoil and composted materials, but you can't hardly do that on the entire 30 acres........
I live in tornado alley oklahoma.......but because of the drought we have only had 2 thunderstorms this year and they were mild.....we have had 12 inches of rain since summer of 2004......wildfires are rampant in the underbrush of the oak forest and the tall grassland prairies.....I am 80 miles North of Dallas TX and 125 miles south of OKlahoma City along the Red River valley that separates OK and TX.......sparsley populated here and the little rural volunteer fire departments are a poor help, most of the woods are just left to burn off if they are not threatening to developed areas....my house smells like a campfire from the drifts of smoke we have had recently.....nothing at all like California, but it is a new thing for us, never this bad before...........

It's nice to chat with you..I have lots of trade materials if you need or want anything from my neck of the woods. I will have the GH up soon to overwinter the tropicals and get an early start on the tomatoes and annuals.......would love to trade for some agave or desert willow.........
thanks for the input,
Jackie