Most disturbing and stunning.

Only a guess, but wouldn't it cost less to reimburse the ranchers for lost head of cattle than it would be to fund such an agency that, wantonly or not, messes with the balance of nature in the animal part of the overall ecosystem?

CaT


If future generations are to remember us with gratitude rather than contempt, we must leave them more than the miracle of technology. We must leave them a glimpse of the world as it was in the beginning, not just after we got through with it.
- Lyndon Johnson, on signing the Wilderness Act into law (1964)