Out to Pasture

Realist
For all of you who continue to spread the proganda of the "movie stars" and groups that are making a fortune off your donations while they spread twisted opinions - do your OWN fact finding.... and while you do that, ask Sheryl Crow how many BLM mustangs she's adopted (you can tell a mustang by the freezebrand on the left side of their neck)- NONE! and has she even talked with the BLM to make sure there is a balance to what she is saying?? Probably NOT!!! Oh yea, how about the Humane Society of the US?? the ones that are saying, let them starve on the range instead of humanely enthanizing them... how many homes have they found for the BLM mustangs.... few to NONE!! Then there's the head of the Cloud's Foundation - don't even get me started on that one!! Finally!! Let's keep this discussion to the issue - it's a "unwanted horse issue" instead of pointing fingers at the cattle - there are a bunch more NATIVE species (animals and plants) that are suffering AND the cattle ranchers are in the business of selling beef - they don't turn their cows out when there is NO FEED but they do continue to pay their fees whether they are using the land or not (not to mention provides the wild species with the water rights THEY own!!)
7:34 AM Jul 11th

Peter Brennan
I raise cattle too. I say leave the horse alone they are part of the web of life as we are. What we do to the web we do to ourselves--who's next?
4:52 PM Jul 10th

Jon
Ironic that when wild horses numbered in the millions, range grasses remained so thick and lush that they attracted opportunist stockmen who reaped quick fortunes running colossal herds of cattle and sheep which, in less than ten years, turned centuries of lush range to dust.
Ironic that, for decades, no complaints were uttered by these newly-rich opportunist stockmen despite over 3 million wild horses competing with their livestock for grass – simply because these same opportunist stockmen were also reaping fortunes selling horses for railroad and street car use, and shipping them by the thousands to Belgian, French and German-owned slaughterhouses in our own US cities where horsemeat was canned for shipment to Europe, and also sold cheap in our own US cities masquerading as beef. In fact, these greedy western stockmen couldn’t breed horses fast enough. And, of course, horse theft was rife.
In other words, millions of wild horses competing with livestock for grass was not a problem for western stockmen - not until the introduction of electric street cars and, the final death blow to their easy profits, the bicycle. By the 1890’s, despite a good decade of advance notice to curtail their massive overbreeding, even the numerous mid-western and eastern foreign-owned slaughterhouses didn’t want the western horses anymore – there were now plenty for sale in every city. So, despite western ranges turning to dust by 1868, it was not until 1894 (when there was no longer a financial advantage in it for them) that western stockmen first demanded iradication of all wild horses.
History repeats itself. Today, despite a good decade of advance notice to today’s greed-blinded overbreeders who’ve been enjoying easy profits at the expense of gross unnecessary cruelty to horses at the hand of a foreign-demand-driven horsemeat trade, the last slaughterhouse in USA is closed and Americans are hell bent on keeping American horses out of Canadian and Mexican slaughterhouses.
Therefore, western stockmen today have no right to be whining that today’s pathetically small number – a mere few thousand – wild horses eat grass meant for their some 7 million cattle. What is left of our wild horses do still have a few rights to protection from exploitation, as do our public lands. Under the Taylor Grazing Act (which took decades to get through Congress due to protests from self-centered greedy western stockmen enjoying free reign over our public lands), it is mandated that, in the event of range depletion, AUMs be suspending and/or cancelled. Obviously, the need for a massive cull is within BLM. Heads should roll for this century’s gross mismanagement of America’s wild horses and America’s public lands.

10:18 AM Jul 10th

Beth in Illinois
Whom ever wrote this is a back woods hillbilly themselves!What moron wrote this?Why is there no name here attached to the article here?I can only guess that they wrote this to get a rise out of people and i see they have mission accomplished here.Because any one with a BRAIN knows it is the millions of cattle grazing the "west into dust"




My guess who ever wrote this "TRASH" is himself a cattle rancher! I personally blame the BLM for this.They should have a program to prevent this.We see the round ups every year,why not castrate the young colts and keep only what breeding stallions that should be allowed instead of rounding them up,keeping them into holding pens and selling the mustangs to the meat buyers?The BLM is long over do to get some one with brains on their pay roll.They would rather waste millions in round ups and care for these horses then turn around and kill them, than come up with a plan that would make every one happy including the horses.



This situation is out of hand and it is the BLM who is to blame for this and no one else.IMO there are 6 million to many cattle grazing the west into dust not the mere few thousand of the wild horses we have left!


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7:31 AM Jul 9th

Anonymous
I love the "it's the cows fault" line of BS... I'm not sure where they get their information but I DO know that just about everyone I know that has grazing leases in NV aren't even using them because there's no feed!! Yet many of them continue to allow the horses access to their water rights - I THANK those "cow ranchers" for ALL they do for many of the HMAs out there!! and I thank the BLM - they take so much flack yet continue to show up and help! (here's some basic trivia for those "experts" out there.... how many HMAs are there and of the total, how many HMAs are in Nevada alone???)
6:11 AM Jul 9th

CJ Oakwood
It is time to get in the real world..........keep the wild horse herds at respectable levels, open up and build more horse processing facilities, so those that CHOOSE to can participate.
It is suppose to be a free country??????????/ right! Those that have no financial interest are dictating policy to those that do....BS!
4:38 PM Jul 8th

Anonymous
Ranchers are only paying 10 cents on the dollar for grazing rights to our taxpayer-owned land. I wish my business had a subsidy like that!

1:10 PM Jul 8th

Anonymous
more resources are used with the cruel and stupid hellicopter roundups than the horses consume. And why are they a problem? Because ranchers want their cows to have the 'free' range instead of the wild horses, do they give that beef away? Nope. If this free range is being given away, I'd rather the horses use it than have it bloat the pockets of some rancher. Its not private land.
11:31 AM Jul 8th

Anonymous

"It’s a page of comments on a story about activists’ efforts to keep the government from euthanizing the thousands of wild horses that, left to nature would be happy to eat much of the west into dust."

30K horse versus the western US cattle herd...which one is the more serious danger to "...eat much of the west to dust"?

11:02 AM Jul 8th