Cattle Guards

Post by **LarsMac** » Sat May 29, 2010 8:38 pm

For those of you who have never traveled to the West or Southwest, cattle guards are horizontal steel rails placed at fence openings, in dug-out places in the roads adjacent to highways (sometimes across highways), to prevent cattle from crossing. For some reason the cattle will not step on the guards, probably because they fear getting their feet caught between the rails.

A few months ago, President Obama received a report that there were over 100,000 cattle guards in Colorado. Because Colorado ranchers had protested his proposed changes in grazing policies, he ordered the Secretary of the Interior to fire half of the guards immediately.

Before the Interior Secretary could respond and presumably straighten him out, Vice-President, Joe Biden intervened with a request that before any guards were fired, they be given six months of retraining.

hoppy · Post by **hoppy** » Sun May 30, 2010 4:21 am

I can believe it.:yh_rotfl:yh_rotfl

along-for-the-ride · Post by **along-for-the-ride** » Sun May 30, 2010 7:10 am

:wah: What did cowboys call folks from the urban east who came to relocate in the west?

Greenhorns?

G#Gill · Post by **G#Gill** » Sun May 30, 2010 7:24 am

In the UK they are called 'cattle grids'