A specialized team of wildlife managers has killed 19 wild cows in the Gila Wilderness in southwestern New Mexico as part of a contested project to rid the area of the unauthorized animals. The ...

The Center for Biological Diversity today filed a motion to dismiss a New Mexico Cattle Growers’ Association lawsuit challenging the U.S. Forest Service’s removal of illegal feral cattle from the Gila ...

There, they “are not domesticated animals and pose a significant threat to public safety and natural resources,” officials said. Hunters in helicopters will gun down the feral cattle starting Feb. 23, ...

A helicopter with a shooter will fly over a portion of the vast Gila Wilderness in southwestern New Mexico next week, searching for feral cows to kill. U.S. Forest Service managers approved the plan ...

SILVER CITY, N.M. (TND) — In what Gila National Forest officials are calling "a difficult decision," potentially hundreds of feral cows will be removed from the Gila Wilderness in New Mexico by lethal ...

In the skies above the New Mexico wilderness, federal agents in helicopters this week plan to shoot and kill dozens of feral cattle, which officials say threaten protected lands and the public’s ...

NEW MEXICO -- The US Forest Service will move forward with killing feral cattle in New Mexico's Gila National Forest, officials say. The agency issued its decision in a news release on Thursday, ...

Federal authorities have a plan to remove feral cows that are roaming New Mexico’s Gila National Forest and causing damage by over-grazing and trampling stream banks. The Albuquerque Journal reports ...

More than a hundred feral cattle will be targeted by hunters in helicopters by order of the U.S. Forest Service. The wild cows roam Gila National Forest in southwest New Mexico. Officials said the ...

A feral bull is seen along the Gila River in southwestern New Mexico in 2020. A legal battle is playing out over a federal plan to kill feral cattle in the Gila Wilderness, which officials say have ...

The US Forest Service will move forward with killing feral cattle in New Mexico’s Gila National Forest, officials say. The agency issued its decision in a news release on Thursday, stating the feral ...