Monday, December 01, 2008
Group seeks Pickens' wife's help to save rangeland Conservationists are looking to the wife of Texas oil tycoon T. Boone Pickens to help push for federal reforms that they say will help thousands of wild horses and save rangeland in the West. Madeleine Pickens recently announced plans to create a refuge for wild horses. She came up with the idea after hearing that the U.S. Bureau of Land Management was considering euthanizing some of the animals to control the herds and protect the range. WildEarth Guardians wants to take Pickens' plan further by proposing a solution the group believes would resolve public land grazing conflicts that have resulted in the horses needing a home. WildEarth Guardians is advocating congressional legislation that would allow ranchers who have grazing permits on federal public land to relinquish the permits in exchange for compensation. The idea is that livestock would be removed from the allotment, leaving a refuge for wild horses and other native animals and plants. Mark Salvo, director of WildEarth Guardians' campaign to protect the West's sagebrush landscape, said he believes voluntary grazing permit buyouts are catching on with ranchers....
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Horses that are left to selective graze will over graze those plants that are more palatable and leave those less desirous plant to flourish which will soon over grow better plants and open the door for more weeds, less palatable plants, and in a few years we will be back to square one. Too many horse and a range land turning into a real desert.Presently domestic animals on these ranges are managed so this doesn't happen.
Great comment. Thanks for taking the time to share.
Somebody has to confront this women and lay the hard cold facts on her that horses eat, poop, fight, break down fences, bite, get sick, need food and water and in the West it would take at least fifty acres or more to support one horse and more if the drought continues.There is more to caring for a horse than giving it a name and kissing it as some of these humaniacs do.
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