Wild Burros: Death Valley's 'aliens'? (wild burros as non-native habitants of Death Valley National Park)

E Magazine | September 1, 1997| | Copyright

Rescuing threatened wild burros in California's Death Valley National Park is no easy feat. For the husband-and-wife team of Gene and Diana Chontos, founders of Wild Burro Rescue, it means - for starter - hitching their truck to a four-horse stock trailer and driving 1,200 miles from their home in Washington's Cascade Mountains.

Then things get really tough. The burros, which would be shot by the National Park Service (NPS) if not removed, have to be tracked down by helicopter (rented at $400 an hour) in the park's remote washes. The kicking, fighting burros (the male "jacks" are ...

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