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NickB79

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35. The problem is, their predators also went extinct

Wed Mar 27, 2013, 01:50 PM

Mar 2013

No more American lions or American cheetahs to chase them down like there were during the Ice Age (yes, there were lions and cheetahs native to the US at one point 10,000 yr ago). Cougars aren't highly effective in hunting them, and wolves have only recently been reintroduced to the Western US.

So, we have reintroduced a species that was native to the US until geologically recently, but then object to any means by which to control their population. Then the horses do what nature intended stallions and mares to do, the semi-arid landscape is denuded of vegetation, and we sit here on DU bitching about how it's inhumane to manage horse populations through round-ups and auctions.

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Wild horses rescued from BLM. [View all] Paul E Ester Mar 2013 OP

Good for them! MineralMan Mar 2013 #1

Nine horses for $850 Paul E Ester Mar 2013 #2

Horses are cheap these days. Drahthaardogs Mar 2013 #22

Is that enough animals for the "ranch" to qualify for the ag tax exemption? Robb Mar 2013 #3

Probably exactly the reason it was done, if so. n/t kurtzapril4 Mar 2013 #8

that's a pretty funny headline hfojvt Mar 2013 #4

lol La Lioness Priyanka Mar 2013 #5

Hah!!! blm Mar 2013 #34

I don't understand your thread title. LWolf Mar 2013 #6

Bingo! If they are bought from the BLM kurtzapril4 Mar 2013 #7

My first horse, LWolf Mar 2013 #9

Yep. They make outstanding riding horses, kurtzapril4 Mar 2013 #12

If we are going to go on and on about cats and horses, et als, being invasive species that 1monster Mar 2013 #13

"The ecological and evolutionary systems have adjusted already." kurtzapril4 Mar 2013 #17

Not true. Evolution can take thousands of years and can happen very quickly. 1monster Mar 2013 #18

Look up geological evolution. Cerridwen Mar 2013 #30

Horses did evolve on the North American continent catchnrelease Mar 2013 #23

The problem is, their predators also went extinct NickB79 Mar 2013 #35

All the Missing Horses: What Happened to 1,700 Wild Horses Tom Davis Bought From the Gov’t? Paul E Ester Mar 2013 #14

Then get it more press. LWolf Mar 2013 #21

Criminals commit crimes. How is that the BLM's fault? Cerridwen Mar 2013 #31

Lately they are not "routinely managing" Nevernose Mar 2013 #19

It looks like LWolf Mar 2013 #20

See post #24. Do some research before people Cerridwen Mar 2013 #26

I don't need to read post # 24 to know what I'm talking about, thanks. LWolf Mar 2013 #33

It's called drought. Read up on it. n/t Cerridwen Mar 2013 #25

Fail, for the completely misleading headline. that you wrote. n/t Egalitarian Thug Mar 2013 #10

I read this as good news. Thank you life long demo Mar 2013 #11

Yeah. Let 'em starve to death in the wild. Cerridwen Mar 2013 #28

K&R redqueen Mar 2013 #15

That's wonderful. It's a shame we don't have free roaming animals in this country anymore. liberal_at_heart Mar 2013 #16

don't get out of town much? Kali Mar 2013 #27

Research drought in the southwest. Cerridwen Mar 2013 #24

Oh yeah, if you don't like the law; change it. Cerridwen Mar 2013 #29

Wild horses. DreamGypsy Mar 2013 #32