New Mexico ranchers urged a judge this week to halt the U.S. Forest Service's plans to conduct an "aerial slaughter" of 150 wild cattle across the Gila Wilderness.

This last-ditch legal effort hopes to stop the U.S. Forest Service's scheduled slaughter of 150 cattle to be shot from a helicopter in New Mexico.

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U.S. agencies have enlisted aerial shooters to cull about 150 cattle that trample habitats and threaten hikers in the Gila Wilderness. Cattle growers say the plan violates laws and regulations.

At least 19 feral cattle in New Mexico's Gila Wilderness were shot to death from helicopters. The operation was ordered by the U.S. Forest Service and occurred over a three-day period, according ...

The US Forest Service is planning an aerial shooting of feral cows in the Gila Wilderness in New Mexico. The feral cattle have created problems in the Gila National Forest since the 1970s.