By Jennifer Brown | Colorado Sun
Four years into an aggressive federal campaign to thin wild horse herds across the West, Colorado officials fed up with helicopter roundups tried something unique — a state-federal working group to collaborate on mustang population control.
Then the U.S. Bureau of Land Management went ahead and proposed its next helicopter roundup.
The announcement in May that the federal agency based in Washington, D.C., plans to remove 85-110 mustangs from Little Book Cliffs near Palisade has set off a fresh round of indignant comments from Colorado officials and run the state-federal collaboration into a wall.
The main question: What is the point of the state working group if the federal government isn’t even listening?