SACRIFICING
NATIVE WILDLIFE
FOR SACRED ICONS
TENS OF MILLIONS OF TAXPAYER DOLLARS FUND WILD HORSE CARE
WHILE NATIVE WILDLIFE SPECIES AND THEIR HABITATS ARE TRAMPLED UNDER HOOF .
By Ron Spomer
Do you think it makes sense to spend $ 80 million of your tax dollars each year supporting a common , abundant domestic animal that provides no meat , no hides , no fur , no wool , no feathers , no energy — nada — while simultaneously depleting and endangering native wildlife ?
Seriously . Would you vote to have your tax dollars fund the increase and maintenance of a common domestic animal that returns nothing on your investment while using up the resources essential to the survival of native wildlife like threatened sage grouse , desert bighorns , mule deer and even songbirds like hummingbirds and meadowlarks ?
Well , that ’ s what the U . S . federal government does — contrary to the recommendations of the very scientists it hires ( also at taxpayer expense ) to assess and manage these free-loading domestic animals . That ’ s right . We pay wildlife biologists to manage feral domestic horses . And all to placate perennially noisy , perpetually dissatisfied animal-rights agitators .
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