I watched it. Good piece about working with and against the media as an activist. It could also be titled: How to substitute your own disinformation.

It’s good that she calls out erroneous and false information that’s being used to perpetuate an injustice, it’s not good that she leaves out what would go against her cause.

She said horse slaughter plants were not closed by the bill that defunded inspections, citing state laws in Texas and Illinois (I think). Although she mentioned the plant in New Mexico later, she did not mention that the defunding bill DID cause it to close.

Definitely there are too many cattle being grazed on public (and private) land. Definitely the rates ranchers are charged to graze their animals are too low. Attention to those facts is needed.

Asserting that horses are good for the range and will help it heal are ridiculous. but assert she does. She attributes the information to a biologist. The biologist has the same horsey agenda she has, and is a member of Protect Mustangs

Protect Mustangs is a California-based non-profit organization devoted to protecting native wild horses.

They are feral, not wild, and certainly not native. That there were equine species here before that died out does not make horses native.

She also disregarded the concerns of Navajos who aren’t grazing too many cattle and still have problems with too many horses. They were among those lobbying for the horse slaughter plant to open. Their concerns are being addressed by Bill Richardson and Robert Redford, who formed a group to manage the horse population on the Navajo reservation without killing any.

If enough cattle are removed from public ranges, they can support a horse population, but only if they reintroduce more predators to keep the population in check.

If they really want to ‘heal’ the range, they should remove all the cattle, horses and sheep, bring back predators, and bring back millions of bison.