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Invasion of the feral cows
Public land cows, not feral, presumably. Jonathan P. Thompson photo.

The Gila National Forest is going to start shooting cattle — of the feral kind — that are wreaking havoc in the Gila Wilderness in southern New Mexico. As many as 150 head of unbranded cattle, apparently remnants of a livestock operation that went belly up in …

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