This used to be a spring that flowed, not a river but produced.
There are a handful of deer and antelope. No cattle grazing for over 60 years.
Horses are the change.
Is it this bad everywhere? No but make no mistake that feral horses are having a significant impact on the range.
At this...
There's a lot of great conservative minds on this board,
So what is the potential to have a group like MDF or WSF to sue the BLM to do gathers?
Would that help get more feral off the landscape?
Took a trip with 3 generations to the mountains. Main goal was to get away from town and make memories.
We were quite the sight moving down the trial. My dad, brother, 3 kids, 3 horses, a mule and a "dog"
Went a little over 9 miles and kids were troopers about it. Caught and cooked fish...
Don't know the population trend in Utah
(And some consideration should be given to new techniques, technologies, models,#s of biologist, biologist time in field, etc)
But in the early 80s the state issued nearly a quarter million deer tags and now it is in the neighborhood of 70K.
I don't do tree work anymore but the homeowner is paying for expertise and a lot in equipment.
If the crew makes it look easy, be glad you paid what you did.
Countless times finished jobs for people that tried themselves or hired the wrong crew.