Re: Re: Wild Horses Debunked!

["Susan Garlinghouse" <suendavid@worldnet.att.net>]

Just finished reading the rest of the comments and reminded myself I
should've known better than to reply to an off-topic thread <smack, smack>.

Back to relevant topics.

susan g


----- Original Message -----
From: Susan Garlinghouse <suendavid@worldnet.att.net>
To: <ridecamp@endurance.net>; Bill and Jan Stevens <circlebarranch@mcn.net>
Sent: Tuesday, December 05, 2000 4:12 PM
Subject: RC: Re: Wild Horses Debunked!


> Just a comment about the statement made that cattle are destructive to the
> extent that they push out the wild herbivores---if that statement were
true,
> there would be no elk, antelope or deer populations on public grazing
lands,
> let alone privately held cattle ranches.  C'mon up to Colorado---there are
> tremendous herd of elk everywhere to the point that if the herds aren't
> reduced, they'll soon be starving due to the poor rainfall this
> season---nothing to do with cattle grazing.  For that matter, some of the
> biggest, fattest herds of elk and deer are to be found on private ranches,
> thus Colorado's "Ranching for Wildlife" program so that ranchers can get a
> little money for letting deer hunters hunt their land.  For all the
> destruction those cattle are supposedly causing, somebody apparently
forgot
> to tell the elk.
>
> JMO.
>
> Susan G
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Bill and Jan Stevens <circlebarranch@mcn.net>
> To: Sandy Bolinger <bolinger@bigsky.net>
> Cc: Ridecamp <ridecamp@endurance.net>
> Sent: Tuesday, December 05, 2000 3:05 PM
> Subject: RC: Re: Re: FW: Wild Horses Debunked!
>
>
> > Sandy Bolinger wrote:
> >
> > >Cattle are only destructive to the environment when managed
> > >incorrectly...horses are also extremly destructive to the environment
> when
> > >managed poorly.
> >
> >
> >
> > Bravo Sandy!
> > As the owners of over 3000 cattle that run on national forest during the
> > late spring-late fall, management is of up most importance.  If we
didn't
> > manage our forest units that we run on, our livelihood would crumble
away.
> > My husband's great great grandfather homesteaded the ranch in the early
> > 1880's.  Our children are the 6th generation here on the ranch.  My
> > husband's great grandfather lobbied congress to take part of the lands
> that
> > were not homesteaded and turn them into Forest Service property to be
used
> > by the people.  This land is owned by the government, but managed by the
> > permittees and forest service personnel.  Though we may not agree all
the
> > time on how things are run, we do work together.
> >
> > Bill and Jan Stevens
> > Fort Howes Endurance Rides, Inc.
> > June 9, 2001
> > 25/50/100
> > 100 miler=FEI-A
> > 50 miler=IAHA Region 6 Championship-pending
> > Coming 2002
> > IAHA National Endurance Championship-pending final board approval
> >
> >
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