Tuesday, June 01, 2010
Charges against feds considered in deaths of wild horses
A Nevada district attorney is considering whether to file criminal charges against federal land managers who are accused by animal rights activists of mistreating wild horses in a roundup. Churchill County Sheriff Richard Ingram said his department began an investigation May 20 after an activist filed a complaint alleging that mustangs were abused and neglected at a holding facility. U.S. Bureau of Land Management officials confirmed that 83 of some 1,900 horses brought there in a government roundup have died. Activists unsuccessfully sued to halt the roundup of the animals from the range north of Reno, branding it as unnecessary and inhumane. The BLM maintains the Calico Mountains Complex roundup was necessary because of overpopulation of the herd, which is harming native wildlife and the range and threatening the mustangs with starvation...more
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tHIS IS A VERY FINE EXPOSE' AND DISCUSSION OF THE FACTS CONCERNING THE ROUNDUPS BEING CONDUCTED ACROSS THE WEST, AND THE TIE IN TO THE RUBY PIPELINE WHICH IS SET TO GO 600 MILES ACROSS THE WESTERN STATES..THIS IS OLD FASHIONED INVESTIGATIVE JOURNALISM. iF YOU THINK THE MINERALS DEPT HAS PROBLEMS..READ THIS
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