Unruly cattle

By Betsy Marston / Writers On The Range
Friday, April 8th, 2016 at 12:02am

... Cliven Bundy’s surviving cattle of some 1,000 animals are “mean and ornery,” says Assistant U.S. Attorney Charles Gorder. The Justice Department calls Bundy’s ranching operation “negligent to the point of cruelty in sending half-wild cattle to graze illegally on protected lands without supervision.”

Unvaccinated and susceptible to illness, “the cattle have little contact with humans, and Bundy often has no idea where they are,” reports the Los Angeles Times. Ken Mayer, former director of Nevada’s Department of Wildlife, adds that trying to round them up is “like hunting cape buffalo. They’re nasty, they’re smart and they won’t hesitate to charge.”

E&E News says the animals continue to trample sensitive soils, devour native saplings and routinely “bed down” on Native American artifacts ...

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