Contrary to his October 27 op-ed in The Blaze, the wild horse and burro program is a grazing program ancillary, supporting three tenets of rangeland management:
- Pest control
- Resource enforcement
- Rancher protection
It’s not “a war on wildlife, propping up special interests while ranchers and communities bear the brunt of unbalanced ecosystems and federal overreach” as stated in the commentary.
Ranchers are the special interest.
Then there’s the unsubstantiated claim that horse meat derived from public lands re-enters U.S. markets illegally from Mexico and Canada as a diluent of ground beef.
And the misallocation of water.
The guy’s as ill-informed about wild horses as the wild horse advocates.
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