In an editorial published today by the Mesquite Local News, the writer, commenting on a proposal announced last week for managing wild horses and burros on public lands in the western U.S., states
“Currently the animals in many herd management areas are so overpopulated that they are starving and damaging water resources. Grazing land needed by cattle and other wild animals is depleted.”
TRANSLATION: Wild horses are robbing too much forage from the poor ranchers, on land set aside for the horses. The horses need to go.
Can’t get much more absurd than that.
Truth is, these people have never accepted the WHB Act and have worked steadily towards its nullification.
Backers of proposal, which will reduce wild horse populations by 70% on western rangelands, were mostly beef producers and a few animal protection groups.
There were no supporters from the oil and gas industry. Nobody from the timber industry stepped forward. Mining companies were silent.
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