Judge rules that New Mexico can shoot wild cattle from helicopters

ALBUQUERQUE, New Mexico: A federal judge has ruled that the US Forest Service can carry out a plan to shoot dozens of wild cattle from helicopters in New Mexico's Gila Wilderness, after refusing a request by ranchers for an emergency order to stop the cull.

During a hearing in Albuquerque held this week, cattle ranchers and local business owners told US District Judge James Browning that the four-day hunt of som