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On a visit to the North at the end of last year, Deputy Minister of Lands and Resettlement Theo Diergaardt told traditional authorities and communal land boards of the Omusati, Ohangwena, and Kavango regions that all illegal fences, especially those erected after March 2003, must be removed within the next few months. The Ministry of Lands and Resettlements chief development planner in the Ohangwena Region, Paulus Amaambo, told The Namibian that 17 farmers in the region had received legal notices to remove illegal fences before the end of next month. A source at the Kavango communal land board also told The Namibian yesterday that five farmers in that region had been served with legal notices to take down their fences before the end of February. In the Omusati Region, five farmers have been served with the same notices. Amaambo said the farmers could appeal the notices in court, which many farmers reportedly have already done. This might delay the removal process as legal aspects thus have to be followed. Because if the courts still find them guilty, they [farmers] will still have the right to appeal to a higher court and even to the Supreme Court, Amaambo said. In July last year Cabinet directed the Ministry of Lands to reinforce measures against those fencing off communal areas. Diergaardt said the removal of illegal fences was in any case one of the major activities of the ministry. In December last year it was decided that charges would be laid with the police if the courts rule against offenders. Diergaardt said cases of illegal fences must be given the necessary attention of the police once cases are reported by the traditional authorities or communal land boards, and that the police must be involved at all times during the physical removal of the fences. It was also decided that the lands ministry would request exemption from the Tender Board to appoint contractors to remove illegal fences. There is no need for High Court orders to remove illegal fences because those may be removed after police investigations are completed. It was also decided that money from the Communal Land Reform Fund be used for the removal of illegal fences erected after March 2003. The Otjozondjupa communal land board was the first to have issued notices to farmers to remove illegal fences. The board in November last year gave eight farmers notices to that effect after they had erected fences in the Na #Jaqna conservancy.

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TWENTY-SEVEN farmers in northern Namibia, found to have illegally fenced off large tracts of land in communal areas, have been issued with legal notices to remove their fences before the end of next month or face the wrath of the law.

On a visit to the North at the end of last year, Deputy Minister of Lands and Resettlement Theo Diergaardt told traditional authorities and communal land boards of the Omusati, Ohangwena, and Kavango regions that all illegal fences, especially those erected after March 2003, must be removed within the next few months.

The Ministry of Lands and Resettlement's chief development planner in the Ohangwena Region, Paulus Amaambo, told The Namibian that 17 farmers in the region had received legal notices to remove illegal fences before the end of next month.

A source at the Kavango communal land board also told The Namibian yesterday that five farmers in that region had been served with legal notices to take down their fences before the end of February.

In the Omusati Region, five farmers have been served with the same notices.

Amaambo said the farmers could appeal the notices in court, which many farmers reportedly have already done.

"This might delay the removal process as legal aspects thus have to be followed. Because if the courts still find them guilty, they [farmers] will still have the right to appeal to a higher court and even to the Supreme Court," Amaambo said.

In July last year Cabinet directed the Ministry of Lands to reinforce measures against those fencing off communal areas.

Diergaardt said the removal of illegal fences was in any case one of the major activities of the ministry.

In December last year it was decided that charges would be laid with the police if the courts rule against offenders.

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A Portland-based group that builds fences for dogs chained outdoors is in desperate need of crew leaders and volunteers for Southwest Washington projects, Fences For Fido team members said.

In addition, the group is seeking an extra-large, insulated dog house for a Great Dane/lab mix thats awaiting a fence in Castle Rock, according to Dolores Handy of Longview, Fences For Fidos Southwest Washington coordinator.

Unfortunately, we cant find anything that big, and we cant build his fence until we get a shelter, Handy said last week, adding that the insulated dog houses built by a Salem volunteer arent large enough for the giant dog.

Fences For Fido, an all-volunteer, nonprofit group formed in 2009, is dedicated to improving the lives of dogs kept outdoors by removing chains, building fences, providing new dog houses, offering medical care and free spaying and neutering. The group typically builds eight to 10 fences each month and usually has about 20 dogs on its waiting list.

The dogs owners arent charged a cent for the work, which runs an average of $600 per project, including the fence, insulated dog house and spay/neuter, according to http://www.fencesforfido.org. The group is funded by donations. Neighbors can anonymously request a fence for a dog, too, using a form on the website.

The dogs owners arent charged a cent for the work, which runs an average of $600 per project, according to http://www.fencesforfido.org. The group is funded by donations. Most clients are low-income and cannot afford to build their own fence, but there are no income requirements. Fence projects are based on the dogs needs rather than the familys financial status, according to the group.

Fences For Fido has built 46 fences for 81 dogs in Cowlitz, Wahkiakum and southern Lewis County. The groups Southwest Washington chapter could help more dogs if it had more local people willing to take charge of leading fence construction projects and getting the materials, Handy said.

So far, were having to rely on people coming up from Portland ... but Portland is booked out until April, Handy said. We would love to build a house every single weekend, but so far, we have not been able to find enough people to fulfill that need. ... We have so many dogs up here who need help.

Just on Wednesday, a volunteer discovered two painfully skinny dogs chained outside in Cathlamet by a ramshackle dog house. Fences For Fido volunteers brought over food and bedding and created makeshift shelters for the dogs until their cozy new dog houses arrive. The dogs owners, who said they couldnt afford to feed the dogs enough, accepted Fences For Fidos offer to build a fence, Handy said.

Fence building is easy, she said. Volunteers dig holes for cedar posts and cement them into the ground. (Within Longview city limits, however, a permit is required, and a city inspector must approve the holes before theyre cemented, which adds a couple of days to the project, Handy said). Volunteers return the weekend after the post-setting to erect a wood-and-wire fence.

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Last summer, while driving through the vast open spaces surrounding Denver International Airport (DIA), I was impressed by the equally vast array of snow fences, which seemed to stretch for miles. (Later, after driving up 14,200 foot Pikes Peakbelieve it or notI caught a shot of an isolated snow shower during late summer,snow fence

After seeing so many miles of snow fences, I began to wonder whether these decidedly low-tech, old-fashioned structures were as valuable today, in this age of technology, as they were in the past. Although I knew the answer would be yes otherwise they wouldnt still be built I wanted to investigate the cost-benefit ratio of the fences in serious snow country. But before expanding on the present-day utility of snow fences, it might be worthwhile to provide a brief history of how snow-clearing efforts evolved in the U.S.

( University of Wyoming Cooperative Extension Service - A typical snow fence.) Snow fences are actually an ancient technology. Archaeologists have discovered what they believe is a 20-foot section of snow fencing near Stonehenge (circa 3000 B.C.) on Englands Salisbury Plain, an indication of what the English climate might have been like at that time.

Geologist/geophysicist Dr. Garry Denke believes the fence was used to channel drifting snow in predictable ways, possibly for water storage.

On the other hand, theres also a theory that the fence may have been constructed to prevent prying peasant eyes from viewing ceremonial Stonehenge activities.

During the colonial era, deep snows often crippled mail service and overall commerce for daysand even weeksat a time. Although snow-clearing ordinances werent yet in widespread use, cities and towns generally took A September snow shower from near the top of Pikes Peak matters into their own hands, clearing drifts so the sleighs could get through.

Ranchers learned that by erecting snow fences near the windward side of roadways and other areas they wanted to shield, significant savings in time and money could be achieved by minimizing snow-clearing operations.

Later, despite technological advances such as the Barber-Green Snowloader (introduced in Chicago in 1920), which plowed, scooped and dumped the snow into haulers, snow fences still maintained their popularity. At small airports, for example, runway-clearing costs could be greatly reduced by minimizing snow depth in critical areas. Overall, the sheer simplicity of snow fences struck a chord with farmers, ranchers, highway workers and the general public.

Today, in conjunction with many new and ingenious snow-clearing devices, such as the Next Generation Snow Plow, the Single-Lane-Obstructing Rotary Snow Plow, etc., snow fences have retained their popularity. In fact, theyve even been improved upon, as the Japanese have developed a blower snow fence, which increases air flow in the area of the fence, resulting in even less blowing snow on the roadway.

( University of Wyoming Cooperative Extension Service - A September snow shower from near the top of Pikes Peak in Colorado.) So what exactly is a snow fence and how does it accomplish its task?

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TRAVERSE CITY City officials will take a peek at regulating fences after hearing complaints about 10-foot high masonry walls around residences along Division Street.

Traverse City planning commissioners directed staff to research a fence ordinance after decades of straddling what's been a contentious issue. Planners have considered an ordinance four times since 1977, but never acted.

The lack of city guidelines for fence building coupled with recent construction of a nearly 10-foot high cement wall on the west side of Division Street prompted residents Pat and Dennis LaBelle to request city action.

"It's a perfect time to address this because it's so ugly, it just sticks out, it really does," Pat LaBelle said of the new wall. "That's a good example of how bad it can get."

Such walls reduce neighborhood safety by obstructing views and give tourists the wrong impression of Traverse City, the LaBelles said.

"The unintentional message these high, solid walls sends to visitors is that there are potential crime issues and that people are not welcome in this area," the LaBelles wrote in a letter to the planning commission.

Kathie Scott lives at Fifth Street and Division and has heard criticism that residential walls make Division Street look like Detroit. She shrugs it off.

"Tough, you don't live here," she said of wall critics.

Scott tried wood fences and cedar shrubs but said they didn't help block traffic noise from busy Division Street.

"We were not able to have a conversation in the back-yard until the traffic clears, and do you know how often the traffic clears on Division?" Scott said. "Not very often."

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The fences are being moved in at Safeco Field for next season. From a practical standpoint, it should aid the Seattle Mariners offense, which could use the help.

The Mariners have finished last in the American League in scoring in each of the last three seasons. They cracked 600 runs for the first time in three years in 2012, but their total of 619 was 48 fewer than that any other team in the AL.

While Safeco Field will remain a pitcher-friendly park, Mariners general manager Jack Zduriencik says the shortening of the field will give his hitters as much of a mental boost as a physical one.

"The marine air is very cool in the spring, and sometimes it's that way into June, and the ball just does not carry well because of it," Zduriencik says. "Guys will hit the ball well in Arizona and come out of spring training feeling really good. Then they come home and the ball doesn't carry, and I think that affects them. When you hit a ball pretty good and it gets run down in front of the warning track, it can be discouraging.

"I realize the park is going to play smaller for both teams. We're going to hit more home runs, and we're going to give up more home runs. From a mental standpoint, though, I think we're going to benefit from it."

Fences from the left-field line to right-center field will be moved in up to 17 feet closer next season. To further help the offense, the Mariners have pursued a number of big-name free agent outfielders, including Josh Hamilton, Michael Bourn and Nick Swisher.

Hamilton agreed to terms with the rival Los Angeles Angels last week. Free agent catcher-first baseman Mike Napoli was intrigued enough to visit Seattle. However, he signed with the Boston Red Sox for three years and $39 million.

Zduriencik says he is finding free agent hitters are more open-minded about the Mariners because of the changes being made at Safeco Field.

"It's come up in more than one conversation with agents," Zduriencik says. "It has gotten people's attention. Before, some agents would be hesitant to even talk to us about their free agents because of the park."

One free agent who signed with the Mariners was outfielder Jason Bay, who hit a combined .234 with 26 home runs in three miserable seasons with the New York Mets after signing a four-year, $66 million contract as a free agent. (The sides agreed to terminate the contract a year early.)

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By Holly Zachariah

The Columbus Dispatch Saturday December 29, 2012 6:00 AM

MARYSVILLE, Ohio As bad as the snow has been in Union County this week, one notoriously wicked stretch of highway fared better than usual.

The drifts along Rt. 31, a primarily north/south highway that runs north out of Marysville, were reduced by the installation this year of several miles of snow fencing which probably will be appreciated again today because more snow was expected to fall.

The Ohio Department of Transportation ramped up its snow-fence program this year, installing 73 percent more than last winter. In ODOTs District 6, which includes Delaware, Fayette, Franklin, Madison, Marion, Morrow, Pickaway and Union counties, Union County was the big winner. Its almost 10 miles of fencing is more than any other area countys.

The temporary fencing, installed for several miles alongRt. 31 less than 100 feet from the western edge of the highway, couldnt stop everything. But it sure didnt hurt, said Dan Simpson, a resident of the Northeast Side of Columbus who had spent Christmas with relatives in Toledo and returned home on Rt. 31 in the middle of Wednesdays snowstorm.

Simpson stopped for gas at the edge of Marysville and said the areas lined with fencing seemed clearer and more passable.

Hard to tell in snow like this, he said as took a minute to scrape ice and snow from his windshield and side mirrors. But I drive enough to know anything that stops even a little bit of snow cant hurt.

Wednesdays storm, which dumped several inches of snow across central Ohio and nearly8 inches on Union County, was the fences first test of the season. Forecasters expect as much as4 inches more by this afternoon.

State workers also installed fencing this year in Delaware County along several miles of Rt. 42 north of Delaware and near the interchange of Rts. 36/37 and I-71. Marion County also saw a big increase this year.

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