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For generations, snow fences have lined roadways. The old “wood slat and wire” fences have been replaced by less expensive and more colorful polyethylene ones, but the operating principal is the same.

Rob Nikolewski is a reporter for Watchdog.org, a national network of investigative reporters covering waste, fraud and abuse in government. Watchdog.org is a project of the nonprofit Franklin Center ...

Since a while, WWF-Mongolia pilots different methods to identify the most suitable tools to reduce human conflict with snow leopards. Erecting high grid fence is one of these methods that was piloted ...