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A photo taken from a kayak on the Verde River shows a group of cows south of Camp Verde. “They’re wild and skittish, and it’s hard to get up on ‘em,” said Joe Trudeau, a conservation advocate for the Center for Biological Diversity. “That’s why they use
helicopters” to round them up. “These very cows are hopefully gone by now.” The roundup comes in the wake of a September lawsuit. Photo courtesy Center for Biological Diversity
Contractors working with the Coconino, Prescott and Tonto National Forests removed over 50 feral, or free-roaming, cows from the streamside habitat of the Verde River in a complex operation before Thanksgiving.