A member of the National Parks Conservation Association partners with the Jackson Hole Wildlife Foundation and Nature Valley in Wyoming to tag barbed wire fences in Teton National Park. Photo by David J. Swift, courtesy of NPCA flickr.com. Fences. Perhaps the only item more symbolic of a lack of public access than a “No Trespassing” sign is a fence. Three strands or five. Barbed or high-tensile. A fence sends a pretty clear message: Keep out. To wildlife, it can carry another message: Death. The Jackson Hole Wildlife Foundation is trying to change that, one mile at a time.

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