SAN JUAN CAPISTRANO – It took 25 people an entire day to build a new fence at Ronald W. Caspers Wilderness Park, but for Evan Kenmore the work started long before the first shovels hit the ground.

It’s the perfect handyman project for the man or woman. who’s not that, well, all that handy. Building a cedar split-rail fence, I discovered, is pretty forgiving and you certainly don’t need the ...