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OPPOSING OPINIONS

The following letter was published in the Las Vegas Review-Journal on March 7, 2005. The writer is George Rowe, who may be a commissioner with Lincoln County, NV. (George T. Rowe is listed on the roster for the Lincoln County Commission.)

To the editor:

I am amazed at some of your readers who think that a controversial federal bill will wipe out wild horses in Nevada. These people obviously don't get into the outdoors much.

The horse population in Nevada is way out of control. You could kill off half the population of horses and still have too many. The BLM has proven that it cannot manage them. The proposed legislation will, however, help with ridding us of this problem -- but it will not be the final answer.

So let's send thanks to Sen. Conrad Burns of Montana for doing something for Nevada, and let's hope that this bill passes and we start removing these beasts that are ravaging our land.

The final answer, I do believe, is to sell a permit to harvest one or two animals. It would make the BLM some money to help with control, as well as managing the herd itself.

Eat horse: You may like it.

George Rowe
PO Box 63
Caliente, NV 89008

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The following opinion was composed by Howard Simkins, and was sent by email to Jill Starr of Lifesavers on February 23. It was sent in response to the report of additional wild horse shootings in Utah.

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This message is indicative of the prejudices, ignorance and lawless attitudes among some of the anti-wild horse forces on the range.

Howard Simkins ([email protected]) wrote:

I would like to applaud what those men did in shooting the wild horses. If the BLM and other government agencies are not going to regulate the horses like they say they will and stop bowing to liberal groups such as yourself, then I see no other recourse. People are living their lives off the land in the means of livestock. It is no different than having pest such as mice, rats and cockroaches invade your home and ruin what you have worked hard to achieve. I truly hope they get off with little or no punishment.

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