Thursday, February 23, 2023

Shooting feral cattle

Ranchers in Arizona have allowed cattle to escape their ranches.  These cattle, now feral, are wrecking stream banks and grazing the year round.  The Forest Service has decided to shoot them from helicopters.  The ranchers are angry.  


I’m not.  Do what it takes to protect the biodiversity of the Gila National Forest.  Since the ranchers don’t like the cattle shot, perhaps the Forest Service could import wolves.  See if they’d like that.


See Christine Chung, “Feral Cattle Will Be Short From Above to Cull Herd,” The New York Times, (Feb. 23, 2023),. p. A13. 

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