Exhibition Docent Handbook - Museum on Main Street

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FENCE ME IN?Fence questions continue to structureAmerican life. Answers to these questionswill shape land, water, and wildlifeprotection; issues of public health andenvironmental quality; and thepreservation of natural resources foryears to come. Fences help define howdiverse activities can co-exist on onepiece of land in the 21st century.THINK ABOUT ITRemind your visitors that fence issues are nota thing of the past and ask them if they knowof any fence disputes in their community thatinfluenced public policy.LET’S TALK• What kind of fence disputes do you recall fromyour own community? Who or what did theresolutions affect? Did the disputes and resolutionschange your community? Did they have aninfluence on public policy?• How do you feel about public access to waterfrontproperty? Do you think homeowners of beachfrontproperty have the right to fence out the publicfrom the coastline?
• Do you think livestock should have accessto streams if they threaten the quality of the water?How to you think ranchers feel about legislationthat mandates livestock enclosure and no accessto streams? Do you think the enclosureof livestock to preserve water sources for plantsand fish is fair to ranchers? To environmentalistsand future generations?• Government-sponsored activities such as coal-bedmethane extraction can have damaging effectson private property and the environment.In circumstances like this, whose position do youthink should prevail? How would you prioritizethe needs of each group?• More Americans who are neither farmers norranchers now live in rural and remote areas.What problems do you think this increasein population and urban and suburban sprawlcause for ranchers and farmers? What about theimpact of sprawl on open spaces? Who isresponsible for keeping livestock out of gardens?Who has the right of way—cars or cows?© Corbis
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