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Good blog Anne I'm glad somebody put it up,I like GWB but I hope this does not happen it is sick and sad to wanna kill these wild horses for no reason what-so-ever.

Note to self: never shoot wild horse while Anne is near....

i hope they never think that there are too many dogs and open season on them

Would you rather them starve to death?
If good homes could be found for the over population that would be great.
I love horses have raised and trained them, but, I do know that only so many can be supported, on so uch land.
Do You have a good suggestion for keeping them from starving, and over populating where they live?

There is always room somewhere? hell give me two or three...I have 5 acres they can live on

LOL, they have been doing this for a long time and all for a good reason.

In 1971 Congress passed the Wild and Free-Roaming Horse and Burro Act, designed to preserve a living symbol of America's frontier past. Thirty years later, there are fewer wild horses than ever.
One hundred years ago an estimated two million mustangs roamed the Western range. But today there are fewer than 50,000, according to the Bureau of Land Management (BLM). And the government has plans to reduce the herds even further—to just 27,000 by 2005.
Since 1971 nearly 159,000 horses have been gathered by the BLM. But a quarter of them never find homes. While the government has recently opened sanctuaries in Kansas and Oklahoma that can each take in 2,000 of the older "unadoptable" horses—horses that remain unclaimed after at least five auctions—there are, on average, 5,000 animals in BLM holding facilities at any given time.
"What to do with the animals that are removed from the range will always be a critical issue. It's unlikely even with aggressive advertising and promotion that we'll be able to find sufficient homes," said Linda Coates-Markle, who managed a BLM herd in the Pryor Mountains along the Wyoming and Montana border.

A home for every horse would be the perfect world.
It takes at least an acre of land for a horse, and then you have hay and feed, and vet bills. We have people that won't take care of dogs and cats, and horses are not anything like a house pet.
They have few natural predators in the wild, like the cougar.

For those who think the poor horsies are out there starving and euthanasia is sweet, I called some friends in Wyoming, Northern New Mexico and Montana.

33,000 horses spread over 11, count 'em eleven! states are NOT starving. My rancher friend in Montana says that his place has more than 200 running wild and free with his cattle and they're, according to him, "fat as flawns".

My geologist friend in Taos says that the Sangre de Christos holds about 8,000 over more than half a million acres and while they're not "fat as flawns", they are NOT starving, nor are they dropping like flies from disease.

My park Ranger friend in Wyoming says that there are two major herds in the Yellowstone and they're doing just dandy. The ranchers outside the park do not get all antsy when these animals come to visit like they do with the wolves and the bears, so neither the ranchers nor the horses are grating on each other's nerves.

According to them the REAL reason the bureaucrats want 'em all dead is that they're under pressure from certain mercantile interests who want to develop the wilderness and to do that they must first get rid of the critters who litter the landscape. Then they can make a case for not needing the wilderness to stay a wilderness for the sake of the wildlife because there ain't no more wildlife.

You gotta give these SOB's credit for planning ahead. What I wanta give 'em is bullet IN the head. And I reiterate, this IS GW's purview. HE'S the one who has the right stuff to bring this nefarious plan to a screeching halt for another 30 or 40 years.

So GET OFF