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Petersen said the Triple B roundup ended the day after McKibben's previous order on Aug. 30. He said BLM has no plans to resume that roundup
-- the only one specifically targeted in the group's original lawsuit filed last year. But Cowan said he said there's no question BLM eventually will return to the area for another roundup. "They finished it to avoid your temporary restraining order," Cowan said. "They are coming back whether they say it or not. Triple B is not over," he said. If that happens, McKibben said the issue will be ripe again for legal challenge. He repeated several times that he couldn't understand why the critics won't acknowledge BLM is taking steps to treat the horses more humanely. "Is your position that absolutely nothing constructive has happened ... that everything done so far is basically meaningless?" he asked Cowan, who answered "yes" each time. "I don't happen to agree," the judge said. "I think frankly that hurts your argument." Cowan said that's the group's position because group Vice President Laura Leigh continues to observe abuse of horses at other gathers. McKibben said the new BLM guidelines were an improvement. "While they have not resulted in the embodiment of new rules or regulations, I see some positive things that happened between the time we were in court before and today," he said. "I would strongly urge the Bureau of Land Management to proceed in that direction. But that's a decision that must be made by the first branch (Congress)."
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