Quote:
Originally Posted by Levin
I don't understand the animal activists who oppose culling when it actually is in the best interest of the entire ecosystem. Not sure that is the case here, where the roundup of mustangs appears to benefit the cattle rancher; but the true principle remains that death to artificially large animal populations is healthier for ecosystems, and the animal activists who put the welfare of individual animals above the health of the entire ecosystem seem very shortsighted to me.
Deer out here in the East are like rats; they're pests with no surviving natural predators.
As an aside, the range and high country in the West is an absolute mess due to the BLM's subservience to the ranchers. We need to reclaim the natural resource of the highland prairies before they all disappear like our prairies in the plains have.
|
Puhleaze.
Give me a break. Most BLM land is f...ing worthless and most ranchers actually improve through proper maintenance. Eastern bureaucrats romanticize the western wastelands, but you and other are grossly misinformed about BLM land management. This is not to say that some ranchers don't abuse the land, but most are responsible.
People who romanticize "mustangs" have never spent time around them.