Environmental damage caused by wild burros. Picacho State Recreation Area (Imperial County at Colorado River, north of Winterhaven, CA & Yuma, AZ)
Note terraced grazing trails and denuded hills caused by wild burros. These terraces are expected to exist for thousands of years due to the low erosion rate of these rocky hills. Across from Taylor Lake Campground, 1/1/1999. Not shown in close-up (in order to be less disgusting) are the piles of burro feces practically everywhere.
Two of the Culprits, 1/1/1999. The only efficient way to get rid of these alien pests is to shoot them from helicopters. This has been prevented, politically, by people who think burros are more cute than pest. Live trapping and adoption has obviously not kept up with the increase in the burro population.
On the left: Cattle tracks in the East Mojave National Preserve.
On the right: Cattle in the East Mojave National Preserve.
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