This winter a small tragedy took place on a ridge above the Bitterroot Valley of western Montana near where I live. I was nearly home when two neighbors out for a walk frantically flagged my truck ...

Thanks to an escape-artist dog, I've been thinking a lot about fences lately. In the city, we had a wood-panel fence around our lot, which I often had to repair after winds slashed through the ...

The heyday of living fences on farms lasted less than 30 years. But Osage orange trees, descendants of fence rows planted as early as the 1840s, still line country roads and fill hedge lines ...

Bill Wallace walks along the damaged fence line on his property in San Saba, Texas. (Photo by Madeline de Figueiredo) Ranches and pecan orchards along the banks of the San Saba River, stretched across ...