Often when I am out hiking or riding along a dirt road in the truck, I am drawn to the beauty of a fence that cuts across the valley. Mountain fences, like all of those created anywhere in the country, served and continue to serve a variety of purposes – from keeping livestock in and predators out, to creating property lines and creating a sense of order in the wild untamed landscape. As all things change, so it is with the materials used to create them. In the early days of Suches, fences were often made from logs, stacked one on top of the other. Log fences were affecti...
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