Well, not exactly. I saw this on an anti-animal rights page. I thought some of you might be interested, too.
"Convincing Evidence
Story and photos by Dan Dagget, author of the Pulitzer Prize-nominated
book "Beyond the Rangeland Conflict"
"The first time I saw the results of Terry Wheeler's ingenuity I almost fell out of the truck. I knew he had pioneered the practice of using cattle to reclaim mine tailings but I wasn't ready for anything of this magnitude. What I saw when I drove over the hill into Miami, Ariz., home of the longest continuously operating project of this sort, didn't look real. It looked like one of those computer-generated backgrounds used in movies such as Raiders of the Lost Ark. A three-hundred-foot-high pile of mine tailings stood on one side of Miami's main street and dwarfed the restaurants and discount stores on the other. And all three hundred feet of that slope were covered with grass, put there by an agent most of the inhabitants of these United States will tell you with absolute certainty is the planet's most effective destroyer of grass. That grass was put there by cows."
The rest is at this link:
http://www.maninnature.com/Bovines/Cattle/Cattle1a.html
"Convincing Evidence
Story and photos by Dan Dagget, author of the Pulitzer Prize-nominated
book "Beyond the Rangeland Conflict"
"The first time I saw the results of Terry Wheeler's ingenuity I almost fell out of the truck. I knew he had pioneered the practice of using cattle to reclaim mine tailings but I wasn't ready for anything of this magnitude. What I saw when I drove over the hill into Miami, Ariz., home of the longest continuously operating project of this sort, didn't look real. It looked like one of those computer-generated backgrounds used in movies such as Raiders of the Lost Ark. A three-hundred-foot-high pile of mine tailings stood on one side of Miami's main street and dwarfed the restaurants and discount stores on the other. And all three hundred feet of that slope were covered with grass, put there by an agent most of the inhabitants of these United States will tell you with absolute certainty is the planet's most effective destroyer of grass. That grass was put there by cows."
The rest is at this link:
http://www.maninnature.com/Bovines/Cattle/Cattle1a.html
