The State - News from Oct. 24, 1986
About 5,800 wild burros have been rescued from Death Valley eight months ahead of a federal plan to start shooting them, a spokeswoman for author Cleveland Amory’s Fund for Animals said. Donna Gregory estimated that only 100 to 200 burros remain following a roundup using a helicopter, cowboys and two New Zealand netting experts. The animal group offers the burros for adoption as pets or as companions for horses. Burros found in Death Valley National Monument after June, 1987, are to be shot, Gregory said.
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