Every time a lib sucks cock, Obama kills a pony
Lib Loo
Judge allows wild horse roundup in Nevada
Dec 23, 5:49 PM (ET)
By MATTHEW DALY
WASHINGTON (AP) - The Obama administration said Wednesday it is going
forward with a contentious plan to round up about 2,500 wild horses in
Nevada.
A spokeswoman for Interior Secretary Ken Salazar said herds in the Calico
Mountains Complex in northwestern Nevada are overpopulated and need to be
reduced to protect the horses and the rangelands that support them.
"The current population in the five Calico herd management areas is three
times what the range can handle, so this gather will ensure high-quality
habitat for the wild horse and burros and other wildlife while protecting
the public rangeland from overuse," said spokeswoman Kendra Barkoff.
She called the dispute over the roundup "yet another clarion call to develop
and implement a long-term solution to the challenges we face concerning wild
horses and burros on our public lands."
The Interior Department announcement came after a federal judge on Wednesday
denied a request to block the roundup, saying opponents had failed to
demonstrate that removal of the horses would violate federal law.
U.S. District Judge Paul Friedman said the agency is obligated under a 1971
law to carefully manage wild horse herds to prevent overpopulation.
The mustang roundup planned for Monday would be one of the largest in Nevada
in recent years. Officials plan to use helicopters to force the horses into
holding pens before placing them for adoption or sending them to long-term
holding corrals in the Midwest.
The roundup is part of the land management agency's overall strategy to
remove more than 10,000 mustangs from public lands across the West and ship
them to greener pastures in the Midwest and East. The Bureau of Land
Management estimates about half of the nearly 37,000 wild mustangs live in
Nevada, with others concentrated in Arizona, California, Oregon, Utah and
Wyoming.
Another 32,000 horses and burros are cared for in corrals and pastures in
Kansas, Oklahoma and South Dakota.
Mustang advocates had sued to block the roundup, saying that use of the
helicopters is inhumane because some of the animals are traumatized, injured
or killed. Opponents also contend that the bureau is grossly inflating horse
numbers to justify their removal from the range.
The lawsuit says wild horses are an integral part of the natural ecosystem
and should remain on rangeland throughout the West rather than be herded
into long-term holding pens.
A state wildlife agency sided with federal land managers, arguing in court
papers last week that the mustangs have "severely degraded" the range and
adversely affect Bighorn sheep and other wildlife that compete for scarce
water resources in the drought-plagued region.
Friedman sided with roundup opponents in one aspect of his 25-page ruling.
He said federal officials likely were violating federal law by stockpiling
tens of thousands of horses in long-term holding facilities in the Midwest.
The judge invited both sides to offer more legal arguments on the issue but
said Congress ultimately may have to get involved.
Since the bureau has no money to euthanize the horses and no authority to
hold them in a long-term facility, "it would face an inescapable conundrum"
in conducting the roundup, Friedman said. The dispute is best solved by
Congress, he added.
William Spriggs, a lawyer who argued against the roundup on behalf of
California-based In Defense of Animals, said he was disappointed that
Friedman allowed the roundup to go forward, but added: "I'm elated the judge
at least bought one of our arguments."
Spriggs said President Barack Obama should issue a "holiday reprieve" for
the mustangs and block the Nevada roundup until the legality of the
long-term holding facilities is decided.
"The BLM's policy of stockpiling tens of thousands of horses in the
Midwest - off their rightful Western ranges - is contrary to law, the intent
of Congress and the will of the American people," Spriggs said.
Gunner Asch
wrote:
>The lawsuit says wild horses are an integral part of the natural ecosystem
>and should remain on rangeland throughout the West rather than be herded
>into long-term holding pens.
Odd though that those horses came to the rangeland AFTER the Spanish
came to America...
But hey..they are OBVIOUSLY a natural part of the ecosystem. At
least...since 1689
Gunner
"First Law of Leftist Debate
The more you present a leftist with factual evidence
that is counter to his preconceived world view and the
more difficult it becomes for him to refute it without
losing face the chance of him calling you a racist, bigot,
homophobe approaches infinity.
This is despite the thread you are in having not mentioned
race or sexual preference in any way that is relevant to
the subject." Grey Ghost
TwoGuns
There aren't that many horses in the whole World.
DL
Martin H. Eastburn
Martin
TwoGuns
wrote:
32,000 horses yes. You made my point. Heck there are probably 32,000
liberal cocksuckers in one square block of Washington, D.C. Like I
said, " There aren't that many horses in the whole World."
DL