Barbed wire is a critical innovation that shaped the High Plains. Field Editor Lacey Vilhauer takes a look at its origins.

A yearling whitetail that was found dead in a barbed wire fence. Photo by Natalie Krebs. With an estimated 620,000 miles of old barbed wire criss-crossing the Western U.S., the group points out, there ...

The Jackson Hole Wildlife Foundation and Grand Teton National Park on Wednesday will finish a fence removal project in Kelly ...

Utah Department of Transportation officials said what looks like an opening in the wildlife fencing on I-80 is actually just the end of its most recent project.

Enter Henry Rose, who is more widely recognized and often credited as the “father of barbed wire.” His early fencing involved wooden rails with metal spikes —a design that eventually evolved into the ...