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<p class="story-body-text story-content" data-para-count="52" data-total-count="52">BAY CITY, Tex. — “I’m gonna mash ’em out.”</p><p class="story-body-text story-content" data-para-count="330" data-total-count="382">Ryan Ashcraft spotted some cattle loitering in standing water under a clump of trees and came out of a long, sweeping curve in his small helicopter to drop toward a clearing so narrow it seemed the blades might give the treetops a haircut — and potentially send Mr. Ashcraft and his passenger on a one-way trip to the afterlife.</p><p class="story-body-text story-content" data-para-count="212" data-total-count="594">Mr. Ashcraft, 22, dipped toward the cattle and then pulled up sharply and hovered; the maneuver made the blades produce a sharp POP-POP-POP-POP-POP. The animals hate the noise, which puts many of them on the run.</p>        <a class="visually-hidden skip-to-text-link" href="#story-continues-1">Continue reading the main story</a>
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<p class="story-body-text story-content" data-para-count="187" data-total-count="781" id="story-continues-3">This wild ride on Friday was part of a modern-day rescue operation for stranded cattle at risk of drowning in the floodwaters produced by the <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2017/08/29/us/hurricane-harvey-warnings-unprecedented.html">unprecedented</a> rainfall from Hurricane Harvey.</p><p class="story-body-text story-content" data-para-count="305" data-total-count="1086">No numbers have yet been released on the number of cattle missing or dead, but it will certainly be in the thousands. Throughout the weekend, distressed ranchers posted calls for help, as well as <a href="https://twitter.com/NRCSTexas/status/902923643109253124/photo/1">images of rescues</a> to Facebook and Twitter, and on the Texas and Southwestern Cattle Raisers Association site.</p><p class="story-body-text story-content" data-para-count="152" data-total-count="1238">After Hurricane Ike, in 2008, dead cows were <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2008/09/26/us/26cattle.html">found floating in floodwaters and rotting in trees</a>, while thousands more, displaced, roamed Southern Texas.</p><p class="story-body-text story-content" data-para-count="462" data-total-count="1700">Ranchers have long used helicopters to manage livestock on large spreads and rugged terrain. But with Harvey, the task has taken on greater urgency, moving from herding to rescue. Texas, the top producer of beef in the United States, is home to 12.3 million cattle, <a href="https://today.agrilife.org/2017/08/28/1-2-million-beef-cows-54-texas-counties-affected-hurricane-harvey/?utm_source=feedburner&amp;utm_medium=twitter&amp;utm_campaign=Feed%3A+AgrilifeToday+%28AgriLife+Today%29">1.2 million of which live in the 54 counties declared disaster zones</a> in the aftermath of the storm. In those regions, there are 4,710 ranchers who are part of the state’s <a href="http://www.texasagriculture.gov/About/TexasAgStats.aspx">$10.5 billion</a> industry.</p><p class="story-body-text story-content" data-para-count="138" data-total-count="1838">Across southeast Texas, cows go from $1,250 to $1,500 each on average, so a thousand head can bring well over a million dollars at market.</p>        <a class="visually-hidden skip-to-text-link" href="#story-continues-4">Continue reading the main story</a>
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<p class="story-body-text story-content" data-para-count="264" data-total-count="2102" id="story-continues-5">Cattle raising is a fundamental part of Texas history: before there were roughnecks, there were cowpokes; before the oil boom, there was the vast King Ranch. “If people lose all of their cattle they’d go broke and have to sell their land,” Mr. Ashcraft said.</p><p class="story-body-text story-content" data-para-count="370" data-total-count="2472">The cattle Mr. Ashcraft drove from the air this weekend were part of about a hundred head scattered near the banks of the Colorado River. The Colorado was high and rising. Their owner wanted the cows driven away from that dangerous perch and moved onto higher ground. Mr. Ashcraft and two other helicopter pilots were there to encourage these <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q2cFji4CmHE">little dogies to git along</a>.</p><p class="story-body-text story-content" data-para-count="403" data-total-count="2875">When flood warnings reached Lindsey Lee Bradford, a fourth-generation rancher from Cordele, in Jackson County, Tex., on Thursday, she and her husband followed <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qGKopJDMwcg&amp;feature=youtu.be">the cattle raiser association’s recommendation</a> to move their 135 cows and 100 calves to safer ground before evacuating. By Tuesday, floodwaters cut off the ranch, making it impossible to feed or water the herd — or know the animals’ fate.</p><p class="story-body-text story-content" data-para-count="459" data-total-count="3334">Ranchers and officials have set up a number of <a href="https://texashelp.tamu.edu/donations-needed-for-hurricane-harvey-animal-supply-points/">supply </a><a href="https://texashelp.tamu.edu/donations-needed-for-hurricane-harvey-animal-supply-points/"> points</a> across Texas with free hay and fresh water for cattle, as well as provisions for other animals. More than 80 makeshift shelters have been established in fairgrounds, parking lots and pastures, housing thousands of displaced cattle, horses, sheep, goats and domestic pets. As of Friday, 2,731 animals were being held in such facilities across the state, the <a href="http://www.tahc.state.tx.us/emergency/index.html">Texas Animal Health Commission</a> reported.</p>        <a class="visually-hidden skip-to-text-link" href="#story-continues-6">Continue reading the main story</a>
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<p class="story-body-text story-content" data-para-count="255" data-total-count="4507" id="story-continues-10">It is hazardous work. One day Mr. Fitzgerald emerged from the water with his face bloody and swollen from an encounter with a mass of floating fire ants. On another flight, Mr. Ashcraft faced off with a pair of alligators, whom he managed to frighten off.</p><p class="story-body-text story-content" data-para-count="348" data-total-count="4855">By his own accounting, Mr. Ashcraft saved thousands of cattle and dozens of people across seven counties last week. But freed animals can become stuck on hills without access to grass or fresh drinking water. Getting supplies to the stranded cattle involves dropping food by helicopter or on horseback — or simply waiting until the water recedes.</p><p class="story-body-text story-content" data-para-count="215" data-total-count="5070">Even after the water is gone, there will be other problems. Cut fences let cattle intermingle. Some are branded, but many only have numbered ear tags which identify the animals among their herd but not their owners.</p><p class="story-body-text story-content" data-para-count="368" data-total-count="5438">The confusion is a temptation to rustlers. “We’ve already had a report from Aransas County of a few people there trying to pick up loose livestock,” said Larry Grey, director of law enforcement for the cattle raisers association. He has dispatched some of the group’s rangers to catch the thieves. “Sadly, you see that after every major disaster,” he said.</p><p class="story-body-text story-content" data-para-count="157" data-total-count="5595">Back in the air, Mr. Ashcraft continued his beneficial harassment of the animals, buzzing them and then jinking left or right to rise out for a new approach.</p><p class="story-body-text story-content" data-para-count="321" data-total-count="5916">For the most stubborn old bulls, Mr. Ashcraft had a pistol loaded with cartridges of rat-shot: small pellets that can kill a rat or snake, but only sting a thick-skinned animal like a cow. All the while, the three pilots coordinated their movements over the radio, making sure that they stayed out of one another’s way.</p>        <a class="visually-hidden skip-to-text-link" href="#story-continues-11">Continue reading the main story</a>
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