Last Saturday was fence-a-palooza at the ranch. It’s one day a year when I’m able to cajole a significant part of the extended family to put in a day’s work on the place. We have about 12 miles of fence to maintain. There’s the perimeter fence, then fences along both sides of the highway, and fences along both sides of the river, and fences for managing grazing rotations. There are fences that don’t appear to serve any purpose at all, but were …