Running Fence is perhaps the best known, most spectacular and aesthetically successful of landscape projects by Christo and Jeanne-Claude. Spanning 24 miles of Western Marin and Sonoma counties, Running Fence took four years of planning, six months to install, and was up for just two weeks in September of 1976. To convince a reluctant public, Christo and Jeanne-Claude held 18 public hearings, commissioned a 450 page environmental impact report, and negotiated with 59 ranchers for use of their land. Thousands of people flocked from all over the world to witness the completed project in the landscape prior to its complete and rapid removal.