Let’s not be fools: it is most definitely a question of desirable vs. undesirable. Chontos and her former husband Gene, a psychologist, founded Wild Burro Rescue at Onalaska, Washington, in 1984, though they did not obtain federal nonprofit incorporation until 1992. To this, the ranchers say “but there are too many burros.” Okay, then there are too many burros, but this is likely indication that the extinction of other native predators that died out about the same time as the native burros and horses, are not here to do their jobs. The data illustrated that 50% of wild foals born will not live to see their first birthday. Maybe a liberal person might not care about (or even applaud) this, but burros like to stand in the middle of (warm) blacktop roads (or airport runways) during the cool hours of the night, posing a SIGNIFICANT hazard to people who use the roads (or runways). But could the mammals be helping native species flourish? https://www.metacafe.com/watch/1355176/lost_burro_mine_death_valley All factors play into their reproduction. The wild burros and wild horses are not really invasive species, because they have evolved for over 1.5 million years in the American West, before their very recent extinction event that coincided with the arrival of humans from across the land bridge. Increased numbers of predators will eventually have the desired effect of controlling herd over population. In 1944, 29 reindeer were introduced to the island by the United States Coast Guard to provide an emergency food source. Stephanie, I do research on sterilization of wild horses and burros as a method of population control, in hopes that this will allow these animals to stay on the range. On Sunday, Oct. 13, I caught an episode of NOVA on PBS about our unbalanced ecosystems and how the planet is able to heal itself. Burros in Death Valley Discussion in ' West – California, the desert southwest and whatev ' started by motocopter , Oct 19, 2019 . Very well stated. They removed the coyotes, then donkeys because their populations started to boom, and the land further degraded. Peaceful Valley Donkey Rescue to Lead “Save Death Valley’s Wild Burros” Project. He was right; among the burros we encountered were two males who fought like horses, standing up on their hind legs, hitting and biting. The animals know we are the intruders. It was a dream like experience, because the horses were the same color as the dust. As for myself, I want to live. What other business gets to take someone else’s land and claim it as their own to just drop off animals to eat and destroy the landscape and then pick em up later to go slaughter? Most of Mans agriculture crops are invasive species but are never described as such. But they forgot nature, natural phenomena how earth created millions and millions years ago and nature brought everything one after another. Removal of the apex predator from an ecosystem ALWAYS throws the balance off. Wild burros in Death Valley National Park were introduced in the 1800s. Within five years, that number could be virtually wiped out under an agreement the park has reached with a Texas organization. Any burros with medical conditions that would make adoption difficult will be placed on PVDR’s main facility in San Angelo, Texas to receive medical care for life. Don’t Fix What Ain’t Broke !!! These predators keep them in line and in proper balance. So if it’s a matter of burro over-population then why not try to control it with a similar technique as encouraged with canines and felines – liken it to spay/neuter? Unlike humans who take for greed and nothing else. I’m blessed with the ability to be able to handle the cats and the neighbors are coming around with food and offers to aid with spay and neuter thus my thoughts on the burro situation. And also that the fact that the ranchers kill off the mountain lions, effectively creating a situation of overpopulation of burros. A post shared by J (@retinalscanner) on Aug 30, 2019 at 7:01pm PDT. This is a classic of preserving the native species and the introduction to the non-native species. Some simple minded folks do it for free because of the 24 hour news indoctrination.just ignore them, or report them. In addition, the mine operator installed an unapproved surface PVC water line from Sourdough Springs in early 2016. They are a non-native species, descendants of those brought in by 19th century prospectors. Those wild descendants of the tough little pack animals of Spanish explorers of the 1500’s, old time gold prospectors and early national park builders still roam those bleak wildlands. Stephanie, I do research on the possibilities of controlling wild horse and burro populations by sterilization. That’s the blink of an eye in which they were missing from this landscape compared to millions of years herein the cradle of their evolution. ‘Unhealthy’ or ‘healthy’ usually just means ‘desirable or undesirable,’ and we should be up front about that.”. It’s a place that seems utterly antithetical to life, certainly not the sort of terrain where you’d expect to find a thriving population of wild burros. As with nearly all issues in biology, it’s very context-dependent, so they may be more helpful in some years than others.”, It’s a complex issue, in other words, and one Lundgren believes requires deeper study. I’ll bet this free range burro meat is delish. One of my favorite spots that I visited in Death Valley was the Lost Burro Mine. . In fact, Burros will find a place having water, drink what they want, and then pollute that watering place with feces and urine so that the other animals cannot have any water. 2 1 Burros of Death Valley represent a remarkable case study in resilience and potential adaptation, and are part of a far more nuanced debate about how … I am curious how many of the people making comments have even been to Death Valley? Can we eat these organic donkeys!? Excellent comment. In spite of the overwhelming heat and sparse rainfall, Death Valley exhibits considerable biodiversity. A period of climate change, in addition to the first humans were incredibly damaging. They eat the minimal vegetation that exist and help promote erosion. Burro populations do need priority for genetic management. Several thousand are estimated to be in the park right now. I take some here in Puerto rico ,I got a few acres with a lot of grass and water ,right now my neighbor have some caws in my pasture . you are correct we humans need to leave the world alone and let nature take is path and not tinker with it for we are the monsters and we destroy animal life.Poachers have begun to kill animals that don’t deserve to die and they are the ones who should die they are the ones who shall go to hell one day and learn their mistakes they made by killing god’s creation.Life is beautiful but seeing it die is sad and we learned even trying to protect animals causes death.Today i found out some people were trying to save the okapi in a sanctuary but poacher came and killed all the okapi and 8 men it’s sad but if we band together and stop fighting we cane bring back every animal if we just stopped fighting and killing each other and just save what god made for us to observe not kill people of the internet if you read this and agree reply back and don’t hate on me i’m only 12 yet i have learned so much from watching animals but when i see them die it fills me with a undying rage sometimes so please don’t treat earth like crap treat i like it’s something you’ll never see again in a long time. They are an invasive species and as such are detrimental to the desert environment. Further, to allow animals to be wild, removal of the hormone sources, that drive social interactions, may be detrimental to welfare. Leave them alone. They need to keep the cattle on their own land, or downsize. If they want to have huge herds than they need to have large tracks of grazing land. Well that’s taking the easy way out. This requires research. Humans have taken too much of the land that belong to the wild creatures and then fuss that they are the nuisance. They can smell the water but the burros won’t let them in. Burro populations have increased greatly in recent years, and are estimated to be between 2,000 and 4,000 animals currently. Death Valley National Park is continuing its work to reduce feral burro populations within the park's boundaries. Pictured: A previously seen wild burrow descended from those left by miners in Death Valley National Park. I hope and pray there will be a better way to handle them then “killing” them. From: Fifty Years of Invasion Ecology. The answer to the question, “Are they the enemy?”, is always yes. The BLM has not gathered population numbers or done any studies of the so-called problem whatsoever, merely pulling its own variety of numbers out from the butts of the cattle ranchers it serves to promote. We have boots on the ground like Eric Lundgren, studying what happens, how it all works out. Leave the big cats, the coyotes, wolves, the burros, the sheep and all the other animals and reptiles that can survive in this ecosystem alone. Lets stop using public land to prop up a few ranchers. The burros, descendants of animals brought to Death Valley by 19th-century prospectors, are a "non-native" species in the park. Can we get a fact check on this idea of “non-native” species? In 2002, the park adopted a management plan with the goal of eventually removing the entire population through partnerships with non-profits like Peaceful Valley Donkey Rescue, which trap burros and offer them for adoption. Asher Elbein, Can’t we consider both? You go first! Interesting post, well written and understandable for a curious public. This world is theirs too. Be happy, at the same time take deep breath and think positively and act with plan to help, teach and learn from other human, animal and plants. Since Death Valley’s founding as a national monument in 1933, the NPS has tried to eliminate wild burros, spending millions in the process and … My knee-jerk reaction is always to get rid of the exotic species, horses, burros, goats, domesticated then feralized cats,…. How heartless. IN 2018, Lundgren turned his attention to Death Valley. For one thing surgical sterilization of the female (which is the most effective approach in ‘polygamous’ species) is much more difficult in a mare or a jennet. For those who do not comprehend this comment I am making reference to a Bible Story in the New Testament. Public land is not for their profit. So, I agree with your suggestion on the similarities to unwanted dog and cat population control. Silt hillsides crowned with rock and scree give way to dry streambeds and barren salt flats, the air dancing under a pitiless sun. They are not evil. And they’re back…. Lo mejor del burro y la yegua. Zero go to slaughter. Predation is an under-studied aspect of burro ecology, Lundgren maintains. One retired Park Person was a frequent offender and one of the worst. How is world is surviving it is unknown. Wild burros. We must reverse the anthropocene , prevent donkey caused plant species extinctiom, and and shrink the donkey carbon hoofprint, which is massive. Watched a documentary called “Unbranded” regarding wild mustangs being trained to trail from Mexico to Canada. The largest park in the lower 48 states, it contains the lowest elevation point in the country — nearly 300 feet below sea level — and has set the global heat record. Call for Investigation of Allegedly Illegal Diversion of Park Water for a Mine It’s time ICE called up Juan Valdez to corral up all these Burros and and lead his people away out of the Democrats Broken Promise land . It is not easy and there will be no miracle and easy fixing tool. Undark uses cookies to analyze site traffic and to provide social media features. “That disturbance may initially have come from Pleistocene mammals, she says, and later from management by Indian populations. . Or will there be a time when governments carry out mass killings, for the sake of the Earth, don’t you know. Do you have a possible tip? Just because they are in their way. Especially considering that not one study has been made on the degradation of the millions of head of cattle and sheep that roam our public lands for almost free, again at tax payer subsidized dollars. Death Valley National Park is con... tinuing its work to reduce feral burro populations within the park's boundaries. I am an animal lover, so I’d like to see these animals saved and protected. It is not right that everyone should have to allow private business on public land. Seems to me that the donkeys are doing the rest of the wildlife a big favor at keeping the wet spots open and digging new ones. The contraceptive PZP will effectively and humanely control the burro population: “he agency should, however, return a significant number of the horses back to their range on public lands. The burros are playing a vital role in the ecosystem, especially in light of the fact that the megafauna are extinct. E. Africanos or not… The entire equus genus *originated* in the Americas. Subsequently, the reindeer population rose to about 6,000 by 1963[6] and then died off in the next two years to 42 animals. Mankind couldn’t have survived all over the world without them hauling their firewood, water, sticks and stones. They’re in fact a benefit to the desert. As the cougars diminished, the horse population grew. They will just boom bust anyway… just like st.matthew island. On the Northern cal Elk herd, the local gov retired persons always bait the elk, leave food out for them in their properties, and always “have” a permit, regularly and put on great bar-b-ques for other gov persons. I agree with your post. Did You Forget My Birthday? Left wandering around, they get hit by cars. One of my favorite memories is seeing a herd of wild horses emerge from a dust storm. So, they strive to keep the pop. Why must humans hunt and kill animals to extinction? Many were released by mining prospectors, and today many people see burros as a part of Western heritage. (The park’s next set of trapping and adoptions, once again in partnership with Peaceful Valley Donkey Rescue, is set to take place this month. I’ve been trying to get this program out to the public, it needs to be done all over North America! Thank you! I really liked this article even though it’s something I would normally never read about. Burros (donkeys) were introduced to the park by gold miners in … In a complaint filed today with the Interior’s Department of Inspector General, PEER charged that NPS went ahead and acquiesced to the diversion even though the mining claims are likely invalid and NPS declined to request a validity examination on those claims. The lack of context is frustrating. Spay and neuter is neither, even in the hands of the most skilled practitioners. As a result the deer population exploded and that winter State wildlife had to fly in and drop hay to these starving deer. In short, it is what it is and it is changing. If humans insist on eliminating any invasive species, we should look at ourselves first. In areas of desert, some people have introduced herd animals and driven them strategically to do exactly what these burros are accomplishing. Despite their pot bellies, they are fast runners. It’s a double negative, costing tax-payers money and causing more detriment. “Only three of 10 peer-reviewed demography studies on horses and burros mention if there are predators in the system or not,” Lundgren says. The last roundup was in 2005. How can killing or removing ever be the correct answer when it comes to animals? The mine is off to the right on the northern end of a small mountain range located between Racetrack Valley and Hidden Valley. Richardson D. For those who are wondering about the meaning of words. “And it’s really the only water in many of these landscapes. In order for this kind of natural check on burros to work, Lundgren points out, lion populations have to be healthy. A growth rate of 20% a year “is really the low end of what I’ve seen published.”. I have seen his videos and listened to his lectures. Increased numbers translates to increased damage to the desert environment. enemy is the Park Service…damned government….leave God’s creatures alone!!!! All the animals from the apex to the bottom of the food chain benefit from donkeys. This researcher, however, has raised a very interesting question, an introduced species may fill a niche that was occupied by an organism that was driven to extinction by humans. Please contact the San Bernardino County Sheriff's Department. His work has appeared in The Oxford American, the Texas Observer and The Bitter Southerner. Parenje Zebri Zebra Befruchtung zebra fertilization. it is true. Plant some tree using permaculture principles and leave the poor animal alive. I see the biggest problem is the removal of large cougars. These kinds of unforeseen consequences are common in conservation land management, Davis says, and the onus for environmental damage tends to be placed on non-native species rather than other factors that might be amiss in the ecosystem, like the absence of predators. Lessons learned that are dismissed generation after generation . Death Valley National Park is an American national park that straddles the California–Nevada border, east of the Sierra Nevada.The park boundaries include Death Valley, the northern section of Panamint Valley, the southern section of Eureka Valley, and most of Saline Valley.The park occupies an interface zone between the arid Great Basin and Mojave deserts, protecting the … And if you don’t like to live in the wild, go live in a city. Officials are trying to rid Death Valley National Park of burros. As an added assurance, each burro is branded “PV.” Death Valley National Park has not removed burros since 2005, largely due to funding issues and lack of capacity in federal burro adoption centers. Every time I read someone observing that maybe the planet would be so much better off if humans were eliminated, that WE are the problem, I have the same thought: Great! Adopt a burro and help a bighorn! This project takes care of individual burros, allows native habitats to … This is really a great question. All these factors make it appear as if the burros have no predators, Lundgren says, but actually point to a more complicated dynamic. They’re also relatively recent arrivals, introduced in the 1800s. Get the donkeys out of Death Valley and replace them with Democrats. Those wild descendants of the tough little pack animals of Spanish explorers of the 1500’s, old time gold prospectors and early national park builders still roam those bleak wildlands. Initially funded by a small grant from Arizona State University, Lundgren raised a further $4,600 via crowdfunding to pay for trail cameras, which he and undergraduate students began placing around Arizona field sites like Bill Williams River. Tropical climate, salt air, and limited water. Honestly, the Fish and Game and the Park People are,,,, in my opinion,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,, should be dissolved, and gone. Before the park service started removing them, they were everywhere, including blocking the highways looking for handouts. They have turned a valuable natural resource into a stinking fly infested mess. They a beautiful animals and GOD’s creatures just like you and I. The BEST thing to do would be to allow them to be hunted. Everyone should realize, however, that the personnel assigned to positions with the Park Service earn their right to be assigned to such positions. And ranchers are allowed to kill mountain lions that reach a certain age! Peaceful Valley Donkey Rescue has been tasked with removing all of the donkeys from Death Valley and surrounding areas. Correct both times. And they’ve flourished to the point where they’ve been deemed a nuisance by the National Park Service, since they bulldoze through scarce water and vegetation resources, digging up riparian environments and crowding out native species. For now, managers aka lawyers for lobby groups think they have to do something for the sack of doing something when in reality in this area, observation is the only thing for us to do for the next decade or so. When the question of the horse’s native status is put to scientists, they roll their eyes. With BLM, their always seems to be an issue with wildlife. Death Valley has more park land than Adirondack “Park”. Here’s a hint: look at the Pleistocene fossils of the area, and fill in what’s missing, in the proportions that they are missing. But for Erick Lundgren, a biologist at the University of Technology Sydney studying their ecological impact, the burros of Death Valley represent a remarkable case study in resilience and potential adaptation, and are part of a far more nuanced debate about how novel ecosystems can evolve under our noses. for introduced species, the rule has been removal, for any thinking people. The National Park Service said Thursday it has entered into a contract with Peaceful Valley Donkey Rescue, a Texas-based nonprofit, to round up and remove up to 2,500 wild burros from the park 100 miles west of Las Vegas. No natural enemies? In my area, I have the evidence of my own eyes and biological surveys. And they’ve flourished to the point where they’ve been deemed a nuisance by the National Park Service, since they bulldoze through scarce water and vegetation resources, digging up riparian environments and crowding out native species. Insisting on a lack of change is really ridiculous. We must leave the predators alone and stop killing them. Initially funded by a small grant from Arizona State University, Lundgren raised a further $4,600 via crowdfunding to pay for trail cameras, which he and undergraduate students began placing around Arizona field sites like Bill Williams River. It is performed under conscious sedation and is a rod inserted through the uterus and the ovaries are blindly torn from the body. Reestablishing coyotes and cougars will naturally reduce the burro population, and those remaining burros will continue digging wells and with the reduced grazing, balance will gradually return. Nature is perfectly capable of taking care of itself, if humans would get out of the way…. “I think that the idea that these organisms are evolving and responding to each other in this novel system is just so interesting and beautiful, and much more optimistic as a vision of nature, than this fragile native space that needs to be protected.”. European horses and burros that were brought to North America were essentially just reintroduced into their native habitat, because there was little to no major genetic evolution in only the last 1o,000 some years. Of course donkeys are gods creatures. Death Valley National Park hopes to be burro-free within the next five years. If they want to improve the water availability and grow more grass, getting rid of the burro is exactly the opposite of what they should do. Not deciding which wildlife we want and which we decide to eliminate. You sound like the poster child for a technocratic nightmare. https://ispmb.org/wild-horses-in-america/. Salt Creek, a mile-long shallow depression in the center of the valley, supports Death Valley Pupfish. His study revealed the same 50% infant mortality rate that kept the population at its low end and correlated directly with a resident cougar population. Genetic diversity of burro populations well below what you would see in healthy populations. Burros — known variously as donkeys, African wild ass, or Equus africanus asinus — are the largest animals in the park. Gorgeous Mountain Lions, rabbits, quail, burros, deer in huge quantities, Eagles. The burro is single-handedly maintaining what little vegetation grows there. there is a hell of a lot more cattle on public lands then wild horses or burro. In the late 1800s, mining towns spread throughout the Southwest, pulling mineral wealth out of places like California’s Death Valley. Sounds like the mentality of Democrats again, consisting of Whatever is good, we need to get rid of it, NOW!!! Take care of this Earth and the land. Ranchers need to either own enough land to sustain the population of their herd or lower their numbers. Wolves are threatened by extinction. i was in Boy Scouts, very active in backpacking etc. Interesting that there are some potential benefits to the non-native burro, but the article should have posed more of the negatives, I can tell people in the comments are unaware that burros tend to hog up springs and crowd out native species from drinking. They have turned a desert riparian water resource into a stinking fly infested mess. Their findings suggested that abandoned burro wells serve as germination nurseries for cottonwood and willows — keystone tree species in the Southwest — and as water resources for native amphibians, insects, and mammals. bring back the apex predators and let nature sort it out. Humans are not entitled to pets and should stop raising livestock at the expense of wild species. We do not know for sure all of them left the US or if they went extinct (mild climate no bones etc). In 2018, Lundgren turned his attention to Death Valley. Native wisdom that white man will not heed has seen this destruction for generations . This has become a top priority for the Forest Services and the Bureau of Land Management (BLM). Instead of Burros, get rid of the stupid human donkeys who suggested the idea. The park could make a honest fortune by thinning out the animals ,selling to China, this could pay for upkeep of the park. THe immediate reaction unfortuantly is to kill the animals….where has its natural predetor gone? From the beginning, according to Lundgren, the scientific literature on Southwestern burros has assumed they are undesirable, and has emphasized the damage they cause. Wild burros. In one e-mail dated October 3, 2017 the NPS Washington Office in Denver (Geological Resources Division (GRD)) advised Death Valley National Park officials to accept the Bush Mining Company (BMC) claims despite not meeting requirements: [7] A scientific study attributed the population crash to the limited food supply in interaction with climatic factors (the winter of 1963–64 was exceptionally severe in the region). We should remove the cattle and other livestock before we remove ANY wildlife that is surviving and even thriving. It’s a nice thought that the burros dig these ‘wells’ and this benefits the native species but the burros don’t share the wells. Invasive burros, Equua asinus, are often called donkeys and can be found throughout the backcountry in Death Valley.They are an introduced species that originally descended from the African wild ass and are NOT native to North America. Those wild burros aren’t hurting anything out there.,they have been there for a long time. This photo is Elegance Simplicity that stands out.. It’s human nature to see complex things as better, but complexity creates confusion, simplicity focus.Hand in hand with truthfulness, simplicity shows elegance. At first glance, the burro problem seems like a cut-and-dried example of “invasion biology,” a conservation subdiscipline that focuses on the destructive impact of non-native species — from cats and rats that wreak havoc on island ecosystems to Asian carp and zebra mussels that clog inland waterways. I am grateful there are people speaking out for them. Yes – same thinking as to when people exclaim: “leave the wolves alone, they are ‘cute’ too!” Would they react that way if such a wolf decimated their livestock, killed their pet dogs, cats, etc., and tried to attack them (as well as the documented killings of people) as has happened in recent years, to people along with groups of animals being managed by these individuals (as well as the herds of Park Service maintained wildlife — elk, deer, bison) – these above-mentioned folks are living where “the very large” (an understatement if there was one) arctic originating & living species of Canadian gray wolf were “re-introduced”? Yes, ‘they’ are the enemy. I traveled to Death Valley and Fort Irwin to film efforts by the Peaceful Valley Donkey Rescue to remove burros from national park lands. Thank you for writing about an off-the-beaten-track location and presenting multi-sided perspectives on the phenomenon of burros in Death Valley. Keep up the good work! National Park is wrong in doing this, nature changes . The surgery is not performed in sterile conditions and the mares only watched for 48 hours. Wow, even this site is invaded by stupidity. The reality of this situation is that man placed these animals in an ecosystem that had never harbored such animal before. Instant vilification. I respect these researchers for their out of the box thinking and how they boot-strapped the research with little help from the usual funding sources. They’re also relatively recent arrivals, introduced in the 1800s. The sideeffects of lower gun violence and better equality for women are also desireable benefits of milling them all . At the end I like to say natural preservation should be out motto. Did you not read the article that discuesses the burros creating springs used by lots of animals? Maybe the poor animals remind some particular people of Jesus Christ too much! 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