ONE OF OUR CUSTOMERS SENT ME THIS. TOO
MUCH!!! Christina
THESE PEOPLE
ARE RUNNING THE COUNTRY??
For those
who have never traveled to the great West, cattle guards
are horizontal steel rails placed at
fence openings on highways to prevent
cattle from crossing. For some reason the bovines will not step on
the guards, probably because they fear
getting their feet caught between the
rails. We need to make that clear in order for everyone
to appreciate the following TRUE
story.
President Clinton received a
report that there were over
100,000 cattle guards in Colorado.
Because Colorado ranchers protested
his proposed changes in grazing
policies, he ordered Secretary of
Interior Bruce Babbitt to fire half
of the guards immediately.
Before
Babbitt could respond, and presumably straighten him
out, Colorado's congresswoman Pat
Schroeder intervened with a
request that before any were fired
they be given six months of
retraining.
LCDR Mary E. Brown,
D.V.M., M.P.H. US EPA/National Center
for Environmental Assessment 26 M.L.K.
DR. MS 190 Cincinnati, OH
45268