Once again, cattle ranchers illegally grazing cattle on public lands win a lawsuit to approve BLM's 'removal' of wild horses.
Wild Stallion by Randy Harris Photo
Public Lands Council (PLC) Executive Director and National Cattlemen’s
Beef Association (NCBA) Executive Director of Natural Resources, Kaitlynn
Glover, today released the following statement in response to a ruling in a
case related to the Wild Free-Roaming Horses and Burros Act.
This week, Chief Judge Beryl Howell of the U.S. District Court for the
District of Columbia ruled that the Bureau of Land Management’s (BLM)
decision to remove more than 1,700 wild horses from the Caliente Complex in
Nevada complied with federal laws:
“Judge Howell’s ruling affirms the Bureau of Land Management’s
responsibility and authority to manage these horse herds using science and
the law. Across the West, horse populations far exceed their appropriate
stocking rates, often by more than three times the ideal population sizes.
“This lawsuit sought to undermine the very tenets of the multiple use
mandate. The BLM is required by law not only to manage resources for optimal
land health, but also for a variety of uses for the American public. In
areas where these herds reside, the BLM is required to ensure these horses
do not continue to degrade water and land health simply because they are
overstocked. I know I speak on behalf of ranchers when I commend Judge
Howell for recognizing that this suit was nothing more than an attempt to
prioritize horses at the expense of the health of our natural resources.”
Source: Press Release
WE SAY
Kaitlynn Glover
The above is based of course predictably (they never disappoint), on the the
usual tissues of lies perpetrated against the American Mustang by the
corrupt United States Department of Interior and its unscrupulously deadly
puppets, the Bureau of Land Management.
In the meantime, someone explain how the Executive Director of the Public
Lands Council is also the Executive Director of Natural Resources of the
National Cattlemen’s Beef Association.
In the meantime, the lowly welfare cattle rancher is often the target of
blame, and they do play a part, but it would behoove us to look beyond them
and continue to follow the big money, and therefore the power, all the way
to the billionaire welfare ranchers.
Take a look at this who’s who:
See Rolex Ranchers and the Living Legends by Ellen Cathryn Nash, in 2005,
and
Wild horses, Federal Grazing and America’s Billionaire Welfare Ranchers
by Vickery Eckhoff ten years later, in 2015.
Eckhoff sums it up with this statement:
“The .01 percenters are the nation’s biggest welfare ranchers, according to
numerous environmental and policy groups; and it’s time they brought some
attention to themselves and the federal grazing program they’re exploiting
to the tune of an annual estimated one billion dollars in taxpayer subsidies
while causing long-term damage to one of the public’s most treasured
assets.”
One billionaire dollars in taxpayer subsidies. That, horse lovers, was in
2015. Imagine what it is now, five years on.
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