The fight to protect wildlife west of Tucson could come down to the wire. A team of government agencies and conservation groups has launched an effort to take down old, barbed wire fences on public ...

Barbed wire shaped the American West, but it kills, injures and blocks migrating wildlife. Some ranchers are trying high-tech alternatives that could reduce the need for it. On a list of the most ...

Behold the humble barbed-wire fence, the five-strand sentinel of Texas woods and plains. Untold thousands of miles of barbed-wire fence divide the state, so ubiquitous outside the city centers that ...

In the Western United States alone, 620,000 miles of fence carve up the land. These barriers threaten the migrations of pronghorn, mule deer and other species. Proghorn encounter a fence line in New ...

On a warm July morning, roughly two dozen volunteers gathered at a ranch outside Cody, Wyoming, carrying wire cutters, gloves, buckets, and bottles of water. The goal was to take down several miles of ...

One day as I was driving from my home near Kraemer Lake, I noticed a small herd of cattle in a pasture fenced with barbed wire. It brought back memories. Wire had been a much-used commodity on our ...

ARMAS EXPLAINS HOW THAT TERRAIN MEXICO AND MEXICO. SOME CLOSED OFF BY STEEL WALLS. OTHER AREAS BARDED FENCES >> SEVERAL MILES IS NORMANDY FENCING. DOZENING MILES IS ONLY BARBED WIRE. >> THAT'S ALL THE ...

This motorcyclist driving along a scenic road when he spotted a sheep stuck in a fence. He immediately leapt into action and tried to help the animal out. However, as he got closer, the sheep freaked ...

Few inventions that were designed in the 1870s that have not changed since they were patented, and they are still widely used in the 21st century. Barbed wire is an innovation that fits this category, ...