Posted on 02/17/2023 11:29:27 AM PST by Olog-hai
A helicopter with a shooter will fly over a portion of the vast Gila Wilderness in southwestern New Mexico next week, searching for feral cows to kill.
U.S. Forest Service managers approved the plan Thursday to protect sensitive spots in the nation’s first designated wilderness area. The move sets the stage for legal challenges over how to handle unbranded livestock and other stray cows as drought deepens in the West.
The Gila National Forest issued the decision amid pressure from environmental groups who raised concerns about nearly 150 cattle whose hooves and mouths are damaging streams and rivers.
Ranchers, meanwhile, have criticized the plan to shoot cows from a helicopter as animal cruelty. They said the action violates federal regulations and will be problematic when carcasses are left to rot. …
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Open it up for hunting, why let the meat go to waste?
These incompetent pieces of excrement should be fired and lose their pensions for wasting taxpayer dollars. Eliminate their positions. Obviously, they were not busy doing any real work, so they had to come up with feral cows to justify their eff’n pathetic existence.
Leave the cows alone
True words
Hell’s bells; round ‘em up, head ‘em up, move ‘em out. That’s meat on the hoof, shoe leather, baseball gloves, etc. At the very least issue huntin’ licenses.
I guess that makes way too much sense
Longhorn cows were feral at onetime. Free for the taking.
They surely were and they were the start to the trail herd business heading them to Sedalia.
Give Gretta a gun and let her save the planet by killing cows that starving people would eat.
I’ve worked around “domesticated” longhorns. They’re big and very smart. Not as dangerous a bison, but I wouldn’t want one angry at me.
Are feral cows anything like wild cattle?
No bulls in the herd, all cows?
In the liberal world, “A difficult decision”, or “It’s complex” translates to “All choices are OK.”
Environmentalists obviously aren’t considering intersectionality.
ping to you
A small farm/ranch on the road I take my walkies on has a few longhorns and highland cattle.
Sometimes I don’t like the way they look at me, especially the highland bull.
Hud.
Cosby had a funny standup about shooting cows in Hud.
I used to hunt deer in that general area. Lots of open country out there!
It’s near the plain of San Agustin, which is where the VLA is located. Beautiful area!
What is a feral cow? Just one the lives in the wild?l
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