Residents remove nearly 100 miles of old barbed-wire fences abandoned in the desert

A group of volunteer Arizonans took it upon themselves to clear out dozens of miles of old barbed wire fences.

In Tucson, the Desert Fence Busters organization has been working to remove abandoned stretches of fencing since 2021, according to local radio station 91.5 KJZZ Phoenix.

Old barbed-wire barriers are found throughout the Sonoran Desert and were likely installed on former farmland to contain cattle. Some of the fencing sections are up to 100 years old and are no longer maintained or used…

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