LAST EDITED ON Dec-27-17 AT 11:12PM (MST)[p]The author discredited himself in the paragraph, to the urban population, when he admiitted he was an bumpkin originally from Idaho. What in hell would he know, about anything, especially the need to preserve the legendary mustang, the symbol of wild freedom.
Horses are like every other animal, wild, domestic, or feral. When human refuse to interject balance, habitat collapses starvation, predation, desease follow, as sure a day follows night. The hell of it is, when we ignore habitat destruction, the original habitat rarely ever comes back and with some nasty plant replacement, not suited for wildlife or domestic species. Cheat grass, thistles, juniper etc.
Horse are like sheep, they not only eat the new growth but they pull the roots out and eat those to. Nevadas mustang areas will never recover from the damage that's been done....... all for the sake of votes in the urban centers of the country.
Not going to end soon either, because it's '"double down" time in the political area and nobody but a few from Nevada give a damn what's going on as long as nobody reduces the mustang legacy.
Kind of like mule deer declining in Wyoming. And if you say anything your summarily invited to mind your own damn business. No, I've never hunt deer in Wyoming (but I want to) or suffered personal lose from Nevada mustang/horse problems, so that makes my remarks out of order, just like the author of this article, who's from Idaho, for hell sake.
He too, should be minding his damn business......Not!
DC