The Colorado Department of Transportation issued its first-ever permit to tear down old fencing for the sake of wildlife ...

Now that the old ranches in Evergreen have become open space, the barbed wire fences are no longer needed, and they pose a danger to animals.

There are more than 2,400 variations of barbed wire. The first U.S. patent for a barbed fence attachment was issued in 1867. But it was not until 1874 that Joseph Farwell Glidden, a De Kalb ...