The Pitchfork Ranch is piloting technology that lets ranchers draw fence on a smartphone. The virtual fence reacts with ...

WALLOWA COUNTY, Ore. — For the past month or so some of the latest technology in livestock management has been in use at the East Moraine Community Forest in Wallowa County, but looking around the ...

Ranchers can set virtual boundaries that keep cattle in specific areas through collars around their necks. “Virtual fence does not replace the human being in the ranching operation,” said William ...

Dustin Taylor left the gate open when he kicked hundreds of cows into one of his pastures this fall. That particular gate had been a source of endless frustration. It’s in the middle of an elk ...

A Southwest Florida rancher is controlling cattle on his 5,000-acre property with an invisible fence as part of research exploring ways to keep livestock from trampling environmentally sensitive lands ...

LEADORE, Idaho — A three-mile stretch of tall, strong fencing that funnels big game animals away from State Highway 28 and toward safe Lemhi River crossings at recently rebuilt bridges proved ...

A ranch in the eastern Crazy Mountains is partnering with conservation groups to experiment with virtual fencing for cattle, a novel but expensive technology that some hope could overhaul fencing ...

LAKELAND — From his home or wherever he has his laptop computer, Jim Strickland is herding cattle. Strickland, manager of Blackbeard’s Ranch in Myakka City, is one of the only, if not the only, ...

For years, activists have been after the National Park Service to take down the fence holding the elk herd captive at the Tomales Point Reserve. And when they finally decided to do so, the question ...

Large, open ranches are often the last wide-open spaces left between growing towns and expanding highway networks. Across much of the American West and Great Plains, these properties still support ...