Authorities airlifting hay to starving Montana horses

[cowcommander]

By Laura Zuckerman Laura Zuckerman – Wed Jan 26, 9:56 pm ET
SALMON, Idaho (Reuters) – Stockmen will begin airlifting hay to hundreds of horses left to starve in Montana after their owner's prestigious breeding operation went out of business, authorities said on Wednesday.

The target of the airdrop and an ongoing effort to truck tons of hay to a 2,000-acre fenced enclosure near Billings in south central Montana are roughly 350 horses whose condition has been steadily deteriorating since the onset of winter and in the absence of food and water.

The 350 horses are part of a larger herd estimated from 500 to 700 head. Hunger forced the other animals to break through fenced pastures and onto the rest of the 40,000 owned and leased acres that once made up the Home Place Ranch operated by James Leachman of Billings.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20110127/us_nm/us_montana_horses

[Sonoman]

1. Fuck that. Leachman is a crook.

Every one knew it but the not-so-hedge funds.

Now, it is down to the ones of us who can make a difference to make a difference.

Sonoman

[Indydem]

2. Damn.

LEACHMAN, JAMES
BILLINGS,MT 59103 LEACHMAN CATTLE COMPANY 8/21/96 $500 Baucus, Max (D)
LEACHMAN, JAMES MR
BILLINGS,MT 59103 LEACHMAN CATTLE COMPANY 6/30/89 $500 Baucus, Max (D)

[orleans]

3. the horses are starving--what's up with the guy that did this to them? n/t