Hay lift aims to save snowbound Plains cattle

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DENVER - Colorado launched a hay lift Tuesday to try to save thousands of cattle stranded by 10-foot-high snowdrifts left after back-to-back blizzards paralyzed life on the Plains.

“These cattle have already gone a number of days without food and water. They’re just going to lay over dead if we don’t do something soon,” said Department of Agriculture Executive Director Don Ament.

Last week’s storm dumped as much 3 feet of snow on the already hard hit mountains and Plains, and state and municipal crews from the Rockies to the Oklahoma Panhandle to Nebraska were still digging out highways and trying to reach isolated homes on Tuesday.

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