The Forest Service is conducting an aerial shooting operation to kill as many as 150 'unauthorized' cows in a part of New Mexico. Now, the governor has stepped into the fight over the operation.
New Mexico’s governor has stepped into the fight over how federal land managers are eradicating wild cows in the Gila Wilderness.
The operation has been the source of legal wrangling and protests by the agricultural community in southwestern New Mexico.alists contend the animals are trampling stream banks and damaging habitat for other species. Ranchers argue the operation amounts to animal cruelty and that the cows could have been rounded up and removed instead of letting their carcasses rot in the wilderness.
“Our hope is to work with cattle producers so that we can achieve more effective operations than have occurred in the past,” Knudsen said in a statement.
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