The staff has successfully begun a multi-year effort to capture and remove the more than 500 burros who were introduced by miners, and who compete for scarce food and water with native wildlife like the Desert Bighorn Sheep.
Jerry Lewis: “The staff has successfully begun a multi-year effort to capture and remove the more than 500 burros who were introduced…”
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Highlighting conservation efforts regarding non-native species in Death Valley.
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