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Post by vegasjames on Jul 17, 2013 4:33:06 GMT -5
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Fossilman
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Post by Fossilman on Jul 17, 2013 11:04:38 GMT -5
Awesome pics...........
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Post by Deleted on Jul 17, 2013 11:21:27 GMT -5
I love burros, thanks for sharing.
are those free range or fenced?
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Post by panamark on Jul 17, 2013 15:06:56 GMT -5
We have new RTH mascots!
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Post by rockpickerforever on Jul 17, 2013 15:12:26 GMT -5
Jack-asses, how appropriate! It's going to take some time before that little dark baby jenny grows into her ears! Looks like she still has a wooly winter coat on. Those are cool pics, thanks for sharing. |
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Post by helens on Jul 17, 2013 18:00:00 GMT -5
I saw some of those!!! We drove by Red Canyon in Vegas and I saw a little group of wild burros!! Was told that they were released to range on their own decades ago, and get rounded up to sell to slaughter houses for glue and dog food regularly. There's even groups that try to protect them. Here's the burros I saw as we were driving to Cactus Joe's:  |
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Post by panamark on Jul 17, 2013 18:18:04 GMT -5
Since we are on animals today, a couple days ago we had a visitor just before dinner. He looked in the window and seemed to say "What are we having?" - Mark  |
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Post by vegasjames on Jul 17, 2013 18:23:48 GMT -5
I love burros, thanks for sharing. are those free range or fenced? The first ones are definitely wild. I run in to them all the time going north of here to collect. They like to huff and puff when you get in their territory and even had one run part way down the hill after me trying to scare me off. The baby I have no idea. I was driving to Goldfield when I spotted that one. The baby was on the outside of the fencing, but hanging with a mule behind the fence. So I don't know if the baby got out or if it was abandoned and just looking for a mother. |
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Post by vegasjames on Jul 17, 2013 18:27:19 GMT -5
I saw some of those!!! We drove by Red Canyon in Vegas and I saw a little group of wild burros!! Was told that they were released to range on their own decades ago, and get rounded up to sell to slaughter houses for glue and dog food regularly. There's even groups that try to protect them. It is not just the burros. The BLM has also been rounding up the supposedly federally protected wild horses, some of which have also ended up in slaughter houses. I still cannot figure out why these BLM officials have not been arrested. Being federally protected people are not allowed to harass the horses in any way. Yet BLM is chasing them with helicopters, which has resulted in the death of a number of horses and recently BLM officials were caught on tape chasing the horses with a truck within a corral for no other purpose than to harass the horses. |
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Post by helens on Jul 17, 2013 18:29:00 GMT -5
That can't be legal? Can't people take pix of what they are doing and send them to the media or Congressmen?
I keep reading about all the crap BLM is doing... that CANNOT be within their mandate. I don't get why more people don't do more about it.
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Post by vegasjames on Jul 17, 2013 18:42:36 GMT -5
That can't be legal? Can't people take pix of what they are doing and send them to the media or Congressmen? I keep reading about all the crap BLM is doing... that CANNOT be within their mandate. I don't get why more people don't do more about it. These illegal actions have been video taped and played all over the media for years but nothing has been done to stop BLM from violating Federal law. |
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Post by helens on Jul 17, 2013 20:49:58 GMT -5
Well, I know that the whining to state authorities is most helpful when the whiners are the from the state they're whining about... but maybe I'll go do some whining on the Federal level too.
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Post by tkrueger3 on Jul 17, 2013 21:46:51 GMT -5
And here we have the other extent of the pendulum - we have a sorely needed, $100 million-plus highway improvement project that is in the crapper because someone found an endangered spider in one of the holes they dug. I mean, I'm all for wildlife conservation, within limits, but this is just asinine!
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Post by vegasjames on Jul 18, 2013 7:23:35 GMT -5
And here we have the other extent of the pendulum - we have a sorely needed, $100 million-plus highway improvement project that is in the crapper because someone found an endangered spider in one of the holes they dug. I mean, I'm all for wildlife conservation, within limits, but this is just asinine! Tom If you want a good example of asinine there was a guy in rural Nevada making a living selling crayfish as some type of lobster to the truckers that came through. He was using the local waters to grow them. Fish and Game decided that his business was endangering some rare fish in the water so the morons at Fish and Games poisoned the water to kill all the crayfish creating a stinking mess and destroying the guys business. The kicker is that they also killed the endangered fish with the poison that they claimed the crayfish were threatening. |
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Post by Deleted on Jul 18, 2013 7:40:46 GMT -5
The horses and burros are not native species so BLM thinks they can do what they want. They are part of our history and they should treat them better!
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Post by rockpickerforever on Jul 18, 2013 10:53:04 GMT -5
Since this seems to have become the animal thread, here's a pic taken years ago, as we were heading west out of Death Valley.  We saw a herd of burros down in a wash off to the south of the road. We stopped, and the lead stallion ambled up to the road to check us out. We fed him and apple, snapped some pics, and went on our way. You can see all the scars on his chest, where he has fought other stallions to keep them away from his harem. He was calm and very well behaved. I imagine he does this all the time! |
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