What if we were to get a Carbon Tax on all the cattle that are on the Wild One’s land? Do you think they would continue with grazing leases if they are hit with that? Causing climate change and not paying for the release of methane into the air?
http://timeforchange.org/are-cows-cause-of-global-warming-meat-methane-CO2
http://thinkprogress.org/climate/2013/12/20/3095771/meat-tax-methane/
(RENO) Today Wild Horse Education (WHE) President and founder Laura Leigh filed documents requesting court permission to intervene in a legal action aimed at all of Nevada’s wild horse population. The Complaint, brought by the Nevada Association of Counties (NACO) and the Nevada Farm Bureau Federation, makes broad allegations asking for wild horse removals statewide and the destruction of what they call “excess” horses in Bureau of Land Management (BLM) facilities.
“We have to try all that we can to defend wild horses against this suit,” stated Leigh “BLMs lack of proactive action to correct flaws made in historic wild horse management has created a situation where our ‘living symbol of the pioneer spirit’ is again the target of private profiteers because of fictional population numbers that are set as ‘appropriate,’ (or what BLM calls AML) and in many cases were set under direct influence of livestock boards.”
In her…
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