A federal agency's proposal to use
helicopters to gather hundreds of wild horses in northwestern
The Bureau of
Land Management office plans to round up more than 270 wild horses off the
Jicarilla/Carracas Mesa area near Navajo Dam. The Santa Fe New Mexican
reports that the federal agency's preferred option includes using
helicopters.
Over the last few years, the Carson National Forest
The federal agency says that method hasn't been effective enough. Wild
horse advocates say helicopters frighten the horses and injure more of them
during a gather than no-chase methods like bait-and-trap.
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Using helicopters could be inhumane. Depends on the driver I think. However helicopters are hugely expensive to operate. Several hundred dollars an hour. The feds should use the very cheapest means possible.
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