Did you know that there is a “1971 Wild Free-Roaming Horses and Burros Act?” Probably not, but then when one considers the volume of legislation created just at the federal level — legislation that remains in force, the normal reaction would be one of astonishment, of being utterly overwhelmed, of one’s eyes just glazing over. No wonder congressmen and senators have no idea what they’re voting on much of the time.
Anyway, apparently we have a crisis of excess horses and burrows running wild in western states. Enter the Bureau of Land Management and a dispute they have with the Humane Society of the United States.
Here’s the crisis in a nutshell for your consideration.
Joseph Quell – if you’re trying to put things in paragraphs, hold SHIFT-ENTER and it won’t complete the text entry on your post… 😉
Noooo. This needs to be stopped
Not against management of the heards as long as the don’t just start shooting them from a chopper
It’s sickening, the horses stay. We need to be their voice.
According to the Washington Post, this was only a recommendation. The BLM says it does not plan on doing it. There does however need to be some kind of solution because they are over grazing and then starving.
Check the land management site.
This is false.
whoa Nelly whose fault is it they dont have enough land?
They eat um in Canada just sayin.
You think Obama is micromanaging every decision made you’re the idiot.
People reproducing isn’t the problem; its misunderstanding what it means to manage wildlife. Death is part of life and one life goes on through another. Whether that is carnivores living off other animals, herbivores living off plant life, fungi living off dead animal flesh, or plants living off the nutrients returned to the soil by the fungi and bacteria that breaks down animal flesh.