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[[title/short::Federal Grazing Program in Bundy Dispute Rips-Off Taxpayers]]
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* '''when''': [[when posted::2014/04/25]]
* '''author''': [[author::Vickery Eckhoff]]
* '''source''': [[site::Forbes]]
* '''topics''': [[topic::Cliven Bundy/BLM dispute]] [[topic::wild horses]] [[topic::US/Bureau of Land Management]]
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* '''link''': [[URL::http://www.forbes.com/sites/vickeryeckhoff/2014/04/25/federal-grazing-program-in-bundy-dispute-rips-off-taxpayers-wild-horses/]]
* '''title''': [[title::Federal Grazing Program in Bundy Dispute Rips-Off Taxpayers, Wild Horses]]
* '''summary''': <call func=smw.let.echo key=Summary>"The [[US/Bureau of Land Management|BLM]] undertakes this removal based on the claim�advanced by ranchers�that [[wild horses|horses]] are overpopulated and degrade the land upon which the cattle graze. David Miller, head of the Iron County Commission, has gone so far as to [http://www.sltrib.com/sltrib/news/57770123-78/wild-horses-blm-burros.html.csp threaten] that the Commission would remove wild horses on its own if the BLM did not act with an immediate plan. The western media routinely mentions �horse overpopulation,� without a source, as if it was an established [http://www.sltrib.com/sltrib/news/57803783-78/horses-county-wild-blm.html.csp fact]."</call>
* Some of the assertions in this article may need to be reconciled with [[2014/03/28/Wild Horses and Burros Myths and Facts]].
* Eckhoff was fired from ''Forbes'' not long after this article appeared, and [http://www.alternet.org/news-amp-politics/forbes-fires-journalist-after-reporting-truth-about-cliven-bundy believes there may be a connection]
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