What is this?

[RaisinCain]

Took the kids to Yellowstone this year, then to Colorado. These are all over the place in pastures in snow-vulnerable places and almost always facing North. We are thinking it is a place for grazing cattle to find shelter in a raging snow storm, but that's really just a guess. Anybody know?

[RaisinCain]

LOL, don't know why the picture is upside down. Maybe someone in charge of the internet (al gore?) doesn't want me to know the answer to this question?

[Cowman52]

Could not see pic but, bet you have a snow fence, some sort of picket fence, or wind break, usually along the road where the pavement is below the surrounding ground. They keep the snow from filling up the cut in the road. will wait on another picture.

[Red Oak]

Snow fences, designed to prevent snow drifts from covering the road.

[RaisinCain]

Thanks guys!

[BigTex]

Snow fences. To keep in the snow monkeys.

[Jim Jack]

Snow fences. To keep in the snow monkeys.

[ann jusko]

What ever happened to the snow monkeys that escaped from somewhere around Dilley, TX?

[BigTex]

I think Nolan took them with him to Houston.

[millergrovesue]

I've never seen snow fences that substantial. When we lived in Illinois they were just picket fences. I wonder if they are not only to block the snow but to keep the cattle from drifting up against the fence and being smothered by snow.

[GFB]

They're common here. You see them whenever you head up into the mountains..to keep the snow off the roads.

[millergrovesue]

They're common here. You see them whenever you head up into the mountains..to keep the snow off the roads.

Thanks for the solution, Greg.