Sheryl Crow & Co. ride off in the wrong direction

As if the Bureau of Land Management doesn’t have enough trouble trying to decide what to do with about 32,000 of the critters in holding facilities and another 37,000 out on the range (about 9,000 over the range’s appropriate management level), along comes Sheryl and her band of pseudo-equine experts claiming the BLM is managing the herds to extinction. Other celebrities in her band of “experts” include Willie Nelson, Lily Tomlin, Bill Maher and Ed Harris, who are also riding in on Sheryl’s Trojan Horse. Sheryl has tried to get a rope on the secretary of the interior to halt the Calico Mountain, Nev., 2,500-head roundup now taking place and is also urging him to put a moratorium on all future roundups. So far, she has failed. She even dropped off a saddlebag full of books and DVD’s about wild horses at the White House for President Obama and has appeared in a video produced by equine activists. If she really wanted to get a firm grip on the reins and sit tall in the saddle, she would trot her band over to help BLM with its “perfect equine storm” — an unprecedented glut of wild horses...read more