To: President Donald Trump, The New Mexico State House, The New Mexico State Senate, Governor Michelle Lujan Grisham, The United States House of Representatives, and The United States Senate
Save our Wildlife
I cannot say better than to quote Rosemary Lowe of Santa Fe who wrote into the Santa Fe Reporter Winter Guide 2012:
As long as livestock grazing continues on our public lands, no wolves (or other wildlife) will be safe.
People will be fooled by the slick marketing of pro-ranching groups like Quivera Coalition, which push their utopian nonsense of feeding 'nine billion people' with so -called holistic methods of ranching. The word 'sustainable' has become propaganda: sustainable for who? Wolves? Bears? Mountain lions? No, sustainability is just 'business as usual' for the livestock industry to continue replacing native wildlife with exotic livestock, expanding human development, not nature.
The Las Conchas megafire burned precious wildlife habitat. Where can wildlife go when cattle are ubiquitous in the unburned areas of the Jemez Mountains? Read pro-ranching material. It's about manipulating the natural world for ranching, while destroying Western lands at taxpayer expense. The Forest Service and (the Bureau of Land Management) muyst stop pandering to the livestock industry.
Want to save wolves, bears and other native wildlife? Let's get the livestock industry off our public lands now, before it's too late.
TOO LATE MEANS THAT THE BEAUTY OF OUR NATURAL LANDS, THE WONDER OF WILDLIFE AND THE INTRICATE SYSTEMS OF NATURE WILL BE MERELY THE STOCKYARD OF WEALTHY CORPORATE RANCHERS!
As long as livestock grazing continues on our public lands, no wolves (or other wildlife) will be safe.
People will be fooled by the slick marketing of pro-ranching groups like Quivera Coalition, which push their utopian nonsense of feeding 'nine billion people' with so -called holistic methods of ranching. The word 'sustainable' has become propaganda: sustainable for who? Wolves? Bears? Mountain lions? No, sustainability is just 'business as usual' for the livestock industry to continue replacing native wildlife with exotic livestock, expanding human development, not nature.
The Las Conchas megafire burned precious wildlife habitat. Where can wildlife go when cattle are ubiquitous in the unburned areas of the Jemez Mountains? Read pro-ranching material. It's about manipulating the natural world for ranching, while destroying Western lands at taxpayer expense. The Forest Service and (the Bureau of Land Management) muyst stop pandering to the livestock industry.
Want to save wolves, bears and other native wildlife? Let's get the livestock industry off our public lands now, before it's too late.
TOO LATE MEANS THAT THE BEAUTY OF OUR NATURAL LANDS, THE WONDER OF WILDLIFE AND THE INTRICATE SYSTEMS OF NATURE WILL BE MERELY THE STOCKYARD OF WEALTHY CORPORATE RANCHERS!
Why is this important?
Stop grazing livestock on public lands