Mrs. Pickens, wife of Texas billionaire T. Boone Pickens, caused an uproar when she proposed the Bureau of Land Management let her fence off more than 500,000 acres of federal land to create a sanctuary for wild horses near a 14,000-acre ranch she bought in October.
Her proposal for the bureau to designate a “mustang monument” on those acres isn’t sitting well in Nevada cattle country, where ranchers worry Mrs. Pickens’s plan threatens to force them off the range. Nevada’s estimated 450,000 cattle graze mostly on federally owned lands in a practice dating from the 19th century.
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