Trump admin pushes to annihilate this wild horse herd on 9/11 . . . public widely opposes

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45. Don't want the horses killed. But the opinion you are expounding is reaching IMO.

There are arguments both ways. Perhaps the first humans here killed them out. It’s likely that is hard to tell.

Regardless, until Europeans arrived there had not been any horse species here for over 10,000 years. Maybe longer, although I doubt it.

But claiming the re-introduction of horses is just a make up thing is not true unless you can bring back their traditional predators, which won’t happen.

But regardless of the ecological arguments. Killing them to increase the number of totally non-native cattle for socialist ranchers is just messed up.

But there is no doubt horse herds without their natural predators can cause degradation to the landscape. And if there are reasons to control the herd size for that reason I’m down with it. Not to allow more cattle grazing.

My only reason for resounding is I think it is dangerous to make simple ecological arguments based on super complicated subjects. I mean, who knows how the other megafauna used to interact with the native horses here? Plus, the climate was totally different during the ice age.

It’s complicated from an ecological viewpoint.