Wednesday, November 23, 2011

Texas Wild Burros Getting Stubborn Allies « Straight from the Horse's Heart

Texas Wild Burros Getting Stubborn Allies « Straight from the Horse's Heart

ALPINE — While it wasn’t exactly Occupy Wall Street, the indignation and hyperbolic class rhetoric sounded quite familiar when local residents met here recently to protest the killing of wild burros at the Big Bend Ranch State Park.

“The 1 percent are dictating policy, which is for the bighorn sheep. The 99 percent, the average people going to that park, are never going to see a sheep,” said Marjorie Farabee, founder of the Wild Burro Protection League and a Director of Wild Horse Freedom Federation.

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