A Federal Feral Cow Massacre Starts Today
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If all has gone according to schedule, then today federal officials from the U.S. Forest Service climbed into helicopters with high-powered rifles and set their sights on cows. A planned “lethal removal” of about 150 un-owned cattle roaming New Mexico’s Gila Wilderness in Gila National Forest was set to begin Thursday…