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When Frank Lorenti of Minturn, a rustic little burg down the road from the villageopolis of Vail in the Colorado mountains, put barbed wire up to keep snowmobilers off his property last winter, the town council responded by outlawing the spiked fencing altogether. Police chief Lorenzo Martinez agreed. "Considering the damage it could do, people don't think barbed wire is appropriate," he reported. "There are a lot of other types of fences...
Over the past few decades, the barbed-wire market has been shrinking because of falling demand, rising steel prices and the fact that almost 700 acres of Western sod are sectioned off, subdivided, annexed or paved over daily, according to the Colorado Cattlemen's Agricultural Land Trust. Strip malls, 35-acre "ranchettes," town houses, resorts, mini-mansions, water parks, you name it, are fast becoming the face of the West, much more so than rodeos, "Howdy, ma'am" manners and, well, barbed wire...
Several other Colorado communities--including Aspen, Craig and Pueblo--have also banned barbed wire. Even outside of residential areas, environmentalists are leading a charge to replace the fencing. It may be cheap and effective at keeping cattle in, but it can be lethal to wild animals like elk and antelope...
...states, and no states had shrinking rates. The report found that two-thirds of U.S. adults are overweight or obese, 60% of the population in 32 states is overweight or obese and more than 30% of Mississippians are obese--the highest number for any state ever. Outdoorsy Colorado is still the least overweight state. [This article contains a complex diagram. Please see hardcopy of magazine...
...figure expected to jump to 2.7 million by 2020--mainly because of returning Iraq war veterans and patients who lose limbs to diabetes-related complications. "We can't sit back and let helpless animals fend for themselves," says Dr. Erick Egger, associate professor of small-animal orthopedic surgery at Colorado State University. "We need to help them, and more important, we need to help people...