Federal Helicopter Teams Set To Gun Down Wild Cattle In New Mexico. Ranchers Are Furious.
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Federal Helicopter Teams Set To Gun Down Wild Cattle In New Mexico. Ranchers Are Furious.

Tim Pearce

A fight is brewing once again over feral cattle living in the wilderness of New Mexico’s Gila National Forest.

The U.S. Forest Service (USFS) is planning to kill potentially dozens of wild cattle in the sprawling Gila Wilderness of over half a million acres. The USFS closed the Gila to visitors on Monday, and beginning Thursday, it plans to hunt cattle in the rugged Gila terrain by helicopter for four days.

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