Cattle trampling of riparian habitat in the Gila Wilderness. Photograph © Robin Silver Photography/Center for Biological Diversity

Stuff you need to know, 12.19.2023

“Feral cattle in Gila likely spared aerial gunning in 2024”
by Danielle Prokop, Source NM
December 19, 2023

Court hearings have been pushed back to February in the federal management lawsuit brought by the New Mexico Cattle Growers Association and others seeking a permanent injunction against the U.S. Forest Service’s practice of shooting feral cattle in the Gila Wilderness from the air. Culling proponents argue that the unbranded cattle pose a threat to recreationalists and the environment.

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Diana Tittle
Diana Tittle

Diana Tittle, a member of the board of Sierra County Public-Interest Journalism Project, was the editor of the Sierra County Sun, the Citizen's precursor. A former resident of Truth or Consequences who now lives part-time in northern New Mexico, she spent her 42-year professional career in Cleveland, Ohio, where she worked as a newspaper reporter, magazine writer and editor, book author and publisher and publishing consultant. She is the recipient of a Cleveland Arts Prize for Literature.

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