A number of wildfires in Texas, Oklahoma and Kansas have caused significant loss of livestock as well as killing several ranchers in Texas, according to reports in Drovers Newsletter this week. According to Reuters, “fast-moving wildfires that burned through nearly 2 million acres (809,380 hectares) of Texas, Oklahoma and Kansas this week have devastated ranches and left thousands of cattle and other livestock dead, officials said on Thursday.” Many of the grass fires grew rapidly on Monday due to dry weather and parched prairie land in the Texas Panhandle, north and western Oklahoma and southern Kansas. Several of the blazes were largely contained on Thursday as hundreds have battled the blazes on the ground and in the air. Here are some of the stories they have posted:
Four Young Lives Lost in Gray County, TX, Fire
U. S. Plains Wildfires Leave Thousands of Cattle Dead (Reuters)
Livestock Losses Mount After Wildfires
