Re: Wild Horses Debunked!

["Susan Garlinghouse" <suendavid@worldnet.att.net>]

Just a comment about the statement made that cattle are destructive to the
extent that they push out the wild herbivores---if that statement were true,
there would be no elk, antelope or deer populations on public grazing lands,
let alone privately held cattle ranches.  C'mon up to Colorado---there are
tremendous herd of elk everywhere to the point that if the herds aren't
reduced, they'll soon be starving due to the poor rainfall this
season---nothing to do with cattle grazing.  For that matter, some of the
biggest, fattest herds of elk and deer are to be found on private ranches,
thus Colorado's "Ranching for Wildlife" program so that ranchers can get a
little money for letting deer hunters hunt their land.  For all the
destruction those cattle are supposedly causing, somebody apparently forgot
to tell the elk.

JMO.

Susan G


----- Original Message -----
From: Bill and Jan Stevens <circlebarranch@mcn.net>
To: Sandy Bolinger <bolinger@bigsky.net>
Cc: Ridecamp <ridecamp@endurance.net>
Sent: Tuesday, December 05, 2000 3:05 PM
Subject: RC: Re: Re: FW: Wild Horses Debunked!


> Sandy Bolinger wrote:
>
> >Cattle are only destructive to the environment when managed
> >incorrectly...horses are also extremly destructive to the environment
when
> >managed poorly.
>
>
>
> Bravo Sandy!
> As the owners of over 3000 cattle that run on national forest during the
> late spring-late fall, management is of up most importance.  If we didn't
> manage our forest units that we run on, our livelihood would crumble away.
> My husband's great great grandfather homesteaded the ranch in the early
> 1880's.  Our children are the 6th generation here on the ranch.  My
> husband's great grandfather lobbied congress to take part of the lands
that
> were not homesteaded and turn them into Forest Service property to be used
> by the people.  This land is owned by the government, but managed by the
> permittees and forest service personnel.  Though we may not agree all the
> time on how things are run, we do work together.
>
> Bill and Jan Stevens
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> June 9, 2001
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