Towers Help “Build” Virtual Fencing and the Future Of Agriculture

Colorado’s Bureau of Land Management (BLM) is undertaking an initiative to improve rangeland health across 1.85 million acres with the help of towers. 

The Colorado Sun reported that 10 towers dispersed across the Upper Colorado River District broadcast a virtual fence technology covering 500,000 acres that is helping the BLM improve rangeland while giving shepherds and ranchers unprecedented control of their livestock.

“How can we manage livestock without structure? Now there are endless possibilities. You can sit on your screen, figure out where you want to send your animals, how long you want them there, and how you are going to move your animals across the landscape,” says Hilary Boyd, assistant field manager in the BLM’s Colorado River Valley Field Office. “It just gives us so much more flexibility.” Continue Reading