Wild horses are trampling Mono Lake landscape. The feds plan a roundup
… Earlier this year, the U.S. Forest Service and Bureau of Land Management approved a plan to round up and remove hundreds of wild horses roaming beyond the roughly 200,000 acres designated for them along the California and Nevada border. … Environmentalists say the horses are degrading the otherworldly landscape at Mono Lake, including bird habitat and its famed tufa. … Local tribes and nonprofits have partnered to fight the roundup plan, arguing that the Indigenous community should be tapped to manage the animals that roam their ancestral lands. A separate group of plaintiffs has sued the government, claiming it’s reneging on its duty to protect the horses.
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