"But we're still around." Competing systems For more than a century, ranchers in the West have kept cattle in place with fences of barbed wire, split wood and, more recently, electrified wires.

DAVIE — The town’s Old West image shrank on Tuesday when Town Council members agreed to limit the western theme district to the downtown area. “It makes more sense for it to be centrally ...

Born in the Old West, it allowed communities to share updates ... that the west was already covered with wire – the barbed-wire fences that divided the range to keep each rancher’s stock ...

Old fence boards may have been sprayed with creosote ... “I am an absolute believer in using reclaimed wood, but you need to be careful,” West said. Reclaimed farm wood furniture is not ...

A pronghorn crawls under barbed wire. Old fences kill a significant number of antelope, deer, and elk in the West every year. Joel Sartore/joelsartore.com Old barbed wire fences are a major hindrance, ...