Activists urge judge to throw out ranchers' lawsuit over excess population

摘要

Wild horse activists Tuesday asked a federal judge to dismiss a lawsuit from Utah ranchers calling on the Bureau of Land Management to immediately remove wild horses from public lands. In April, 12 Utah ranchers of the Western Rangeland Conservation Association - formed with the help of local counties, the Utah Farm Bureau Federation and the national Public Lands Council - sued BLM (Greenwire, May 2).