To the editor: I recall visiting a spring, 25 years in the past, down a mud observe someplace close to Joshua Tree. It was fairly trampled. A ranger advised us wild burros have been the issue, driving out the native fauna. Castration, as instructed by Julie Moreau, founding father of Grateful Coronary heart Animal Sanctuary, (“‘Spherical them up and castrate the boys’”; California conservationists take purpose at wild burros,” Sept. 17) sounds a believable answer. (Personally, I might be OK with taking pictures them additionally).
Bob Wieting, Simi Valley
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To the editor: I used to be appalled to listen to about your article concerning the roundup of untamed burros within the Massive Bear Valley. These roundups are often inhumane and separate herd members, generally even injuring or killing the younger animals that can’t sustain with the remainder of the herd.
I completely agree with these residents that dwell there, because the article states: “The burro management campaigns have additionally sparked anger and resentment amongst residents, who view the animals as a part of native historical past, and never an invasive risk.”
I feel your state would make extra in tourism cash from folks coming to see the burros than the indigenous vegetation which are within the space.
Please cease these roundups from occurring! There has bought to be a greater manner.
Betty Scheldt, Carlinville, Ailing.
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To the editor: Conscious that these beasts, donkeys or burros, have been and nonetheless are a real beast of burden in so many nations for a lot of centuries and have, on the entire, lived wretched lives in essentially the most unforgiving climates with brutal therapy being simply a part of their somber existence, this reader has at all times felt a deep sympathy and compassion for them.
To learn that even right here this species is now thought-about a grave burden is melancholy information. For these wild burros dwelling within the San Bernardino Mountains space, most have lived a superb existence to this point and have been warmly accepted by most inhabitants of and vacationers to that group. However now with their regular proliferation, others suppose that it’s time to rethink their usefulness and want them to depart. They’re now thought-about an “invasive species” by some. It’s comprehensible that there’s real concern for the competitors they now pose to struggling native species of vegetation and their unlucky pure habits of defecation round waterways. Understanding of the grim circumstances of “roundups” which are so prevalent now, this reader is sickened and may solely hope and belief that there’s a extra humane method to cope with this concern.
One should at all times bear in mind that it’s our personal human inhabitants progress that has and is driving most animal and plant species to extinction, so we ourselves should not totally innocent. Allow us to hope that some sort of fertility management can be used within the case of the wild burros because it now in wild horse populations and that we are able to discover some lodging that can permit the burros to proceed to dwell on this welcoming group. Nonetheless, I do want to thank the journalist for bringing all sides of this thorny query to readers to ponder.
Elaine Livesey-Fassel, Los Angeles
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To the editor: Many because of reporter Louis Sahagún for his story on conservationists battling the wild burros in Massive Bear Valley and for eliciting a spit-take from me whereas consuming my morning tea. After his opening paragraphs laying out the a number of methods these burros are making a nuisance of themselves ecologically, he summed up the problem succinctly with this: “For San Bernardino Mountains conservationists, the indicators are all too clear: Massive Bear Valley has an enormous ass drawback.” And I, in flip, laughed my ass off. I doubt any AI app may’ve pulled off that little gem.
Babs Greyhosky, Los Angeles
