The Texas Parks and Wildlife Department will host a public meeting next Thursday, June 12 at 7:00 pm at the Bellaire City Hall Auditorium, 7008 South Rice Avenue, Bellaire, TX. The meeting will focus on natural and cultural resource management activities on state park properties, with a focus on management challenges at Big Bend Ranch State Park.
As you may remember, Big Bend and its century-old burro herd were the focus of intense controversy after Park officials shot 71 burros last year. The Park-sanctioned removal policy was driven primarily by a plan to introduce big horn sheep into the Park, presumably to enhance a state-run big game hunting raffle program. The 35-year veteran Park employee who exposed the shootings was transferred and ended up quitting. An investigative officer also quit in disgust, reporting that burros were left to suffer a slow death, shot in belly, hips, and that orphaned babies were left to fend for themselves.
If you can attend, please comment on the Park?s misguided idea of wildlife ?management? as applied to wild burros.
Media Contact: Lydia.saldana@tpwd.state.tx.us
Phone: 512.389.4557
On behalf of the burros, thank you for your support.
The AWHPC Team
American Wild Horse Preservation Campaign
www.wildhorsepreservation.org
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