Share our land with the horses
Re: “Ranchers want wild horses reined in,” May 6.
Your article describes the “surging population” of horses as being so costly to rancher Jim Bowhay, with Rick Erismann asking “Who’s benefiting?”
Why does it have to benefit humanity to be valuable? An 8,500-square-kilometre area with 853 horses in it — that’s one horse per 10 square kilometres. Are you kidding me?
I find it hard even to read these articles in their entirety as they display such selfishness. These animals survive in the wild where a human is compromised after 24 hours alone. Can we not respect that, and share our world, land and resources? Do we have to solve our problems by killing everything that moves? We sanction hunting and culling for frivolous reasons. We kill routinely, because we can.
We are the ones destroying the fragile ecosystems, with our all-terrain vehicles and insatiable appetites for entertainment and endless expansion of our numbers — seven billion and rising.
Nancy Singleton, Calgary