Editor:
The Nature Trust Properties in the Morrissey Creek Watershed have been hammered by cows.
The erosion beside the road and the damage to all shrubs critical for wintering wildlife is worse today than when the land was purchased in 1973, a year after the Boothman Ranch purchase.
The two property markers adjacent to the road read, “Nature Trust, Conservation Area.”
The reality is that there is no such thing as range management and as long as range staff and ranchers are allowed to behave this way, the Gilpin Grasslands will remain a disgusting cow pasture.
How is it possible that this can happen to one of Grand Forks’ most important assets – the Gilpin Grasslands?
Jim Zibin, Grand Forks