When I was a farm girl, we had two pastures. Both of them had rusty, old barbed wire fences surrounding them. They also had electric fences as a double insurance that our cattle herd would stay in the ...

Q: If two ranches are separated by a length of old barbed-wire fencing and that fence needs repair, who is responsible come fence-mending time? Name Withheld, Weatherford A: Your inquiry is more ...

Clippers in hand, volunteers snap the metal lines of an old fence, its strands drooping and thorns rusted. Once they sever the wire from the posts, they coil it up and cart it away. These are the ...

FLORENCE – Sometimes, bad fences make better neighbors. The traces of past ranching along the Bitterroot River are getting an upgrade that helps today’s cattle operations, wildlife researchers and ...

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 ...

STRONG CITY — Third-generation rancher Daniel Mushrush has 30-plus miles of barbed wire fence to tend to. Calves wriggle beneath it. The wires get loose. Wild animals take a toll. And when streams ...

Vandals snipped barbed wire on 25 sections of fence separating city-owned open space and private land on Missoula's North Hills this winter, leaving the area's volunteer guardians disheartened. "There ...

I’m mending fences with my dad, and I don't mean that metaphorically. I’m actually stringing and stretching barbed wire and driving in metal t-posts. A neighbor had called him Thursday to tell him his ...