Tuesday, June 14, 2005

Poop and Circumstance

The Billings Gazette is reporting that the horses ridden by the U.S. Border Patrol in Arizona are being fed a pellet-based diet. Why is this ISW news? The horses have been switched off hay to avoid the danger of their feces spreading non-native weeds, typically found as hay contaminants, into the deserts of Arizona. I still wonder how groups that rent out goats and sheep to eat invasives deal with this issue.

Thanks to a member of the Yahoo! group ma-eppc for posting this article.

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

let the chips fall where they may! lol

Jennifer Forman Orth said...

anonymous, where were you when I was trying to come up with the catchy post title? :-)