We are tired and irritable here this bright Tuesday afternoon.
There is so much drivel in this story. Not from the charming Bill Welch of USA Today. He just reported it (poor man). Here’s
how it starts, after the thin gray line.
Link to full story at the end. I guess you should read the whole thing. At least we found a great cartoon.
We could not find a for sure picture of Tom Gorey. Kinda odd, since he is a spokesperson and all.
So we had to settle for a cartoon instead. Gorey says the BLM are protecting horses, rangelands and the taxpayer. All lies.
Sorry, Tom (not really).
LOS ANGELES — The Obama administration’s first try at resolving the debate over the wild horses of the West
has not gone over well with some.
Animal rights groups say that Interior Secretary Ken Salazar’s proposal to relocate thousands of mustangs to preserves
in the East and Midwest would compound years of federal mismanagement of the horses.
They want the 37,000 horses now roaming federal lands in the West to remain despite the risk of starvation and conflicts
with cattle. In response to Salazar’s proposal, they reiterated their stand during the Bush administration: let the
mustangs run loose on millions of acres of federal land where beef cattle are raised.
“Why are we, a cowboy nation, destroying the horse we rode in on?” asks Deanne Stillman, author of Mustang:
The Saga of the Wild Horse in the American West. “We may be heading toward the point where we only have wild horses
in zoos.”
Tom Gorey, spokesman for the Bureau of Land Management, the agency that manages the rangelands, said the federal government
is aware “of the heritage and symbolic importance of these horses.” Even so, the bureau says, the cost of keeping
the horses at a sustainable population is far too much.
“We’re protecting horses, rangelands and the taxpayer,” Gorey said.
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