I seem to recall hearing reports about the Federal Government dropping bales of hay for stranded cattle.
Guess the bovines aren't as virtuous as the people thereabouts. Of course, the ranchers were probably shooting at the helicopters so as to maintain their steel-jawed independence.
Of course, the ones in Denver were not dying and the city destroyed, else they would have been whining like whipped puppies- -the survivers, that is.