Dude, I could go on about this forever. I lived in the mountains of Colorado for many years and I love wilderness camping. The problem was that BLM lets cows graze on their land.
Nothing is more frustrating than showing up at your favorite wilderness spot and having to dodge the immense amount of cow shit and then having whole herds come through your campsite.
We also had a huge wild horse population nearby that BLM decided to round up a huge amount of because “there’s not enough grazing and they’ll starve!” They used helicopters and separated foals from mothers, stallions were powerless to keep their herds safe and some were circling their captured mares and foals trying to figure out how to get them out.
Two weeks later a video was posted from the same valley and there were THOUSANDS of sheep grazing. They basically used the starvation excuse to get a majority of the wild horses out of the way so ranchers could graze their sheep with minimal grazing competition.
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Dude, I could go on about this forever. I lived in the mountains of Colorado for many years and I love wilderness camping. The problem was that BLM lets cows graze on their land.
Nothing is more frustrating than showing up at your favorite wilderness spot and having to dodge the immense amount of cow shit and then having whole herds come through your campsite.
We also had a huge wild horse population nearby that BLM decided to round up a huge amount of because “there’s not enough grazing and they’ll starve!” They used helicopters and separated foals from mothers, stallions were powerless to keep their herds safe and some were circling their captured mares and foals trying to figure out how to get them out.
Two weeks later a video was posted from the same valley and there were THOUSANDS of sheep grazing. They basically used the starvation excuse to get a majority of the wild horses out of the way so ranchers could graze their sheep with minimal grazing competition.