Behind the wire with a fence ecologist
morning on Horse Prairie — a plateau of big sagebrush and dusty washes overlooking Horse Prairie Creek in southwestern Montana — a man sat at the helm of a skid-steer loader. Attached to its front was a spool-like contraption called a Dakota wire winder and post puller. Four volunteers threw up their thumbs — — and the man flung a switch. The winder spun up, and a stretch of woven wire fence lying on
