Cattle Round Up 1890 – Colorado

December 11, 2014

“The thing that bothers me the most is the recklessness and greed of the local ranchers, who run too many cattle back here, choking with waste the creek that runs through my property. There’s certain times of day that the cowboys like to send them turds down the river. Them f**kers piss me off. if you gotta mess up the ecology of the world in order to raise a bunch of cows, well eat somethin else. I’m not a fan of the cowboys.”

– Merle Haggard, Rolling Stone, 10/1/09

“An un-named stream BLM refers to as Pine Creek has been blown out by livestock in the Lost River Range. 10/2/07”..Western Watersheds

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