TBell, how do you mix in the olive oil with the hamburger? As you grind or after?
Here in NM the Gemsbok (Oryx) that escaped from White Sands Missle Rangeange onto the National Park became an issue. The Park decided to round them up and push them back onto the Range. Oryx are known to have killed lions in Africa, and are often spotted with coyotes rotting on their horns. Of course they gored a horse.
When I worked for the Forest Service, we called the Park Service "the land of no". No hunting, no camping, no dogs, no fires, etc. When the herding didn't work, they hired professional hunters to kill them. Oryx meat is by far the best game meat I've ever eaten. The odds for the once in a lifetime hunt on range is 1:10. Out of state licences go for abut $1500.
I live in Albuquerque, and the high schools were sold horsemeat for a while. It tasted great.
When they passed the Environmental Protection Act back in the '70s, the Forest Service started hiring "environmentalists". Biologists, Landscape Architects, Soil Scientists, Hydrologists, etc. They all have one thing in common. They went to college and learned to worship Mother Gaia. The EPA requires months of report writing by those same people before the agencies can do anything. In the case of controlled burns, they have to plan months in advance to meet air quality standards, so if the selected date turns out to be windy, the choice is to put it off to next year, or take a chance.
They use to have burro hunts there along the colo river and baroques with the burro. It was my understand they were good to eat. Never got changes to do that. They closed it down. They why not for the cows. They want free ranging herds of everything else.
