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Thank you very much, Saph, for your response. I value and appreciate your experience that you bring to the group.
I am venting here, because I feel like we are being bullied. I honestly thought that the US Forest Service would use credible resources to support their claim about concerns about goats, but they have not. We have seen them use resources used that have been retracted by the Deputy Chief of the Forest Service, information used by illegal committees, etc. The Wool Growers successfully defended their case in Idaho and won their case against the Forest Service. So it irks me that the Shoshone National Forest is trying to use old information that was thrown out of court. If they had done their homework and provided accurate scientific based evidence, I would have more respect for them. But they have not. So that is why I feel they are are pushing an agenda that makes absolutely no sense. I am more concerned about the Bighorn Sheep herds dying of selenium deficiency than I am of exposing them to packgoats.
I am good friends with John M., and he has decided to side with the Forest Service and the Game and Fish. i do not bring that up, as i want to remain friends with him. He and I have talked at length about the Selenium issue.
I am venting here, because I feel like we are being bullied. I honestly thought that the US Forest Service would use credible resources to support their claim about concerns about goats, but they have not. We have seen them use resources used that have been retracted by the Deputy Chief of the Forest Service, information used by illegal committees, etc. The Wool Growers successfully defended their case in Idaho and won their case against the Forest Service. So it irks me that the Shoshone National Forest is trying to use old information that was thrown out of court. If they had done their homework and provided accurate scientific based evidence, I would have more respect for them. But they have not. So that is why I feel they are are pushing an agenda that makes absolutely no sense. I am more concerned about the Bighorn Sheep herds dying of selenium deficiency than I am of exposing them to packgoats.
I am good friends with John M., and he has decided to side with the Forest Service and the Game and Fish. i do not bring that up, as i want to remain friends with him. He and I have talked at length about the Selenium issue.