Judge: BLM broke law by ball bustin' wild broncs

BOISE - A federal judge says the U.S. Bureau of Land Management violated environmental law in its plan to sterilize a herd of wild horses in southwestern Idaho. U.S. District Judge Edward Lodge ruled last week the BLM failed to analyze consequences of the action and ordered the agency to reconsider its decision. Wild horse advocates who filed the lawsuit had also argued the BLM adopted a plan that failed to protect wild horses. However, Lodge said he wouldn't rule on whether or not the BLM violated the Wild Free Roaming Horses and Burros Act. Instead, he instructed the BLM to better articulate its reasoning for using sterilization...more

That judge really got down to the nut cuttin'.