"Lueders said she understood that the heavy equipment was being used to 'restore land that has been affected by the trespass cattle.' "
Bull schlitz!
She needs to get her azz out of the air-conditioned office more often.
We're not talking about 300 million buffalo stampeding across the land....we're talking about 500-600 cattle over what.....150,000 acres.
The "heavy equip" (whatever that means) is or was being used to blaze staging areas (corrals) for the captured cattle and/or to open roads or improve two tracks
so that semi's can get in there to remove the cattle. The use of a backhole to
hoist dead animals into a dump truck is another possibility.
A private aircraft can fly over the area and record what has changed. The scars would stand out. Of course,the BLM could request the FAA or Homeland to declare the area a no-fly zone.
The statement that heavy equip would repair habitat damage done by cattle is assinine. Let's compare footprints of the equip to the cattle. And why attempt range repair when the cattle haven't all been captured?
