Virtual fence technology improves grazing management on public lands

A couple dozen ranchers, virtual fence company employees, and agency rangeland specialists from the U.S. Forest Service and the Bureau of Land Management, as well as from the Natural Resources Conservation Service and Colorado State University Extension, gathered on a brisk fall morning to learn about virtual fence, which might be the most significant technological innovation for improving grazing management on the range in the last century. We travelled through ponderosa pine, Gambel oak, and grass meadows to see how it is being used on a grazing allotment on the San Juan National Forest.