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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pretty much. “Just warm” was her other way she liked her beef.
The BLM Captures horses and donkeys in the CA deserts, to protect that land.
They feed them and prep them for adoption.
Way more costly than a 308 round (not including helo flight time).
You should see the big piles of hay they have purchased for them.
A couple of years ago there was a problem in Central Texas with feral goats.
I guess environmental groups run the country now. And climate change freaks.
How hard is it to get a clean kill shot from a hovering helicopter, anyone know? It’d be horrible if they had to chase and bang away at these things.
So, out with the bison, too?
Are they nit to be eaten because some of them are sick?
It sounds like it would be a real waste of meat!
Why not have a hunting lottery?
Charge 20 bucks to get your name put it!
Here is how the Moose hunting lottery works in Maine:
That’s cool, just keep it away from the salad.
There have to be better solutions than shooting them like that and leaving all that meat to rot.
What a crime.
Federal government is heartless and soulless.
slow elk and moo deer taste good!
That’s true. I have to remember Cows were not always as domesticated as Elsie The Cow on those milk cartons.
You gotta show “em who”s Boss, see?
Don’t let um flap you around like a silly goose!
This is so senseless. If they really wanted to get rid of them then send in hunters who will harvest the meat. But what they are doing here would be a crime if anyone else did it. My guess is that they don’t want any want any survival food left out there as they choke off our food supply.
And just like that, guns were good again.
Send in those Border Patrol horseback riders to rope ‘em up.
Feral cows were all over Florida long ago left over from the Spanish herds.
Lone ranchers would get rich gathering them up and putting new herds together.
LOL
Might as well shoot donkeys too. Wild horses, ladybugs, praying mantises, stink bugs, pigs, they’re all invasive species brought here.
Cant have those domesticated bovine trampling around in the National Wilderness. Do you know what that might cause?
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