Wild burros wreak havoc on Texas
Rick Jervis,
USA TODAY
ALPINE, Texas To the residents of this West Texas city, burros are friendly, intelligent animals that make good pets and are engrained in this country's history.
To state park officials, they're a destructive, invasive menace that cross over from Mexico with disease, foul streams and threaten native plants and wildlife, and should be eliminated. Park rangers have shot and killed more than 120 of the beasts.
Wild burros wreak havoc on Texas ecology
Rick Jervis,
USA TODAY
ALPINE, Texas To the residents of this West Texas city, burros are friendly, intelligent animals that make good pets and are engrained in this country's history.
To state park officials, they're a destructive, invasive menace that cross over from Mexico with disease, foul streams and threaten native plants and wildlife, and should be eliminated. Park rangers have shot and killed more than 120 of the beasts.
Wild burros wreak havoc on Texas ecology