Posted on 04/12/2014 2:11:54 AM PDT by blueplum
Enterprise, UT (Reuters) - A Utah county, angry over the destruction of federal rangeland that ranchers use to graze cattle, has started a bid to round up federally protected wild horses it blames for the problem in the latest dustup over land management in the U.S. :snip:
Wild horse preservation groups say any attempt to remove the horses would be a federal crime.
On Thursday county workers, accompanied by a Bureau of Land Management staffer, set up the first in a series of metal corrals designed to trap and hold the horses on private land abutting the federal range until they can be moved to BLM facilities for adoption.
:snip: Wild horses have not been culled due to budget constraints, according to Utah BLM officials, who say their herds grow by roughly 20 percent per year.
Pressure on rangeland from the horses may worsen this summer due to a drought that could dry up the already sparse available food supply, according to Miller.
"We're going to see those horses starving to death out on the range," he said. "The humane thing is to get this going now."
Adding to frustration is BLM pressure on ranchers to cut their cattle herds by as much as 50 percent to cope with the drought, Miller said.
(Excerpt) Read more at reuters.com ...
Not only are they extremely difficult to handle, but feed and hay has become astronomically expensive. Horse rescue programs have become overrun with horses that actually could be used and ridden... not too many people have the resources to keep a wild mustang just for a lawn ornament.
I wonder why the gov’t is choosing NOW to cut herds, when just this week it was reported that cattle count is lowest since the fifties and the price of beef at a record high? PETA involved or global warming nuts?
Years ago I was given a wild mustang that had been adopted by someone, and after finding out that he was indeed wild, dumped him off at a mutual friend’s farm. By the time I finished training him he was the most loveable horse.
“The sickening part is the left will not give up until the nation has crashed to it’s knees with a dictator in charge and/or all out civil war”
You will be able to tell your grandchildren that you lived during CWII.
Here’s a bunch of facts about the wild horses and the BLM.
I own a BLM mustang, but I think the truth is that most of the feral horses should be shot.
“Every ranch that’s sold and every farm denied water depletes the food supply. And with GM seeds, even what is grown to guarantee a bigger harvest is less healthy.”
A move to nationalize the food industry? Make food scarce
or unavailable trough regulation. Pass laws that make
it illegal to grow your own. Blame high prices and food
shortages on the private sector and take over.
It’s the socialist way.
this overproduction of horses = dogfood if we can’t see to eating it ourselves. although the time may come when we will eat horse meat readily.
Yep!
Are you able to ride him? One problem I have heard about with adopted mustangs is that the stallions are already mature and don’t adjust well to gelding. They stay wild and very dangerous.
I appreciated getting to read your interpretation of what was happening in Nevada over the past days. What about this situation in Utah — any insights? Thanks in advance.
In this string of replies to my original post you are the first that said they actually can ride their mustang.
“Years ago I was given a wild mustang that had been adopted by someone, and after finding out that he was indeed wild, dumped him off at a mutual friend’s farm. By the time I finished training him he was the most loveable horse.”
That’s Awesome.
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