Why does the government conduct roundups that affect Cloud and his family as well as countless other wild horses? What’s at stake for the mustangs of Montana and other Western states and what happens to the animals auctioned off? Use the guide below to find out more about this longstanding controversy.
How did the roundups get started?
For decades, wild horses that came too close to cattle or sheep on public grazing lands were targets for capture or slaughter. Airplanes or cars were used to round up horses that got in the way of domestic livestock. Water holes were contaminated with poison to kill them off. Outraged by the gratuitous destruction of the horses, Nevada resident Velma Johnston (known as “Wild Horse Annie”) launched a national campaign to encourage states and the federal government to protect the wild horse as a symbol of the American West. In 1971, Congress responded, passing the Wild Free-Roaming Horses and Burros Act that authorized only agents of the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) to gather the horses as part of their work in preserving federal lands
Why not just let the horses run free?
Some animal activists think they should run free. They argue that the West’s wild horses, which number roughly 47,000, are greatly outnumbered by privately owned cattle and sheep that also graze on public lands. They portray the Bureau of Land Management as a special interest group for ranchers.
Needless to say, the BLM disagrees. According to the bureau, the roundups, known as “gathers,” are used to keep herds from multiplying beyond a sustainable population. State BLM offices estimate that wild horses repopulate at the rate of roughly 18 percent per year. Apart from the mountain lion and black bear, wild horses have few natural predators. The BLM claims that without their intervention, wild horses would die from starvation or dehydration as they compete for limited range and water resources with other wild animals and livestock. Drought, disease, and fire are also cited as justifications for a roundup.
The Wild Horse and Burro Freedom Alliance, however, points out that wild horses have diversified grazing habits and usually only briefly enter cattle-grazing areas for water. They note that even after massive roundups of mustangs, grazing areas are not necessarily improved for cattle.
How are roundups carried out?
Since 1976, the BLM has used helicopters. Flying at low altitudes, bureau agents drive the herds for miles to an area where they are then loaded onto trucks headed for a holding center. Agents may bring in an entire herd and then winnow out adoptable horses or take in a band out of an entire herd. Depending on its size, a roundup can last for several days or several weeks.
The bureau maintains that helicopters are the most humane way of driving these wild animals across plain and mountain ridge to the centers, but animal activists disagree. The Fund for Animals argues that the sound of the helicopters can spark panic in wild horse herds and place undue stress on the animals — particularly in late winter or during droughts. Of particular concern are mares that are pregnant during the roundups. Foals, unaccustomed to running long distances, can also suffer various limb injuries that make them unsuitable for adoption.
Once at the holding area, wild horse specialists separate the animals according to sex and age. Mares with foals are kept apart. The bureau states that it makes “every effort” to reunite mares with lost foals. Agents then decide which horses are eligible for adoption, which go into a federal rest home, and which are returned to the range.
How many horses does the BLM roundup each year?
Totals and the frequency of the roundups vary according to the target area. Local BLM officers decide upon the figure based on periodic studies meant to indicate how many horses can co-exist with native wildlife and domestic livestock and still have adequate access to water and fodder. Some horse advocates question this practice and argue that the 1971 act and a subsequent 1992 regulation does not empower the Bureau of Land Management with decision-making powers about the removal of wild horses. They claim that only the Secretary of the Interior can make binding decisions on wild horse removal strategies. In fiscal 2003, the BLM removed 10,091 horses from public ranges.
Where Cloud lives, in Montana’s Pryor Mountains, 6 to 12 stallions were captured in late September 2003 to keep the herd at 140-150 animals, according to the Casper STAR-TRIBUNE. Roundups in this part of Montana occur once every 3 years.
How does the BLM choose what horse to keep or not?
In theory, it’s a question of what characteristics — sex, age, genetic stock — the BLM’s local wild horse specialist thinks will best help a herd maintain its “appropriate management level” or AML. An AML is a target population for a herd that guarantees that there will be adequate vegetation and water for livestock and other wildlife without undue stress on the environment. In some locations, these criteria are determined with the help of wild horse advocates.
Horses under five years old are sent to a facility where they are vaccinated, wormed, and freezemarked (branded with an iron chilled in liquid nitrogen) before being offered for adoption.
Horses that are over 10 years old are defined as ready for retirement and are transferred to government-run long-term holding centers to receive permanent care. Horses between the ages of 5 and 9 are returned to the range. The bureau says that “under normal circumstances,” unadoptable horses are returned to the range.
How are wild horse adoptions managed?
In 2003, about 6,185 wild horses were adopted, according to the BLM. Adoption fees are usually established by competitive bids at an auction — the minimum price is $125, the average is $185. Any person who can pay the fee, is at least 18 years old, has no prior conviction for inhumane treatment of animals, and can demonstrate to BLM inspectors that the horse will be adequately cared for within the U.S. is eligible to adopt a horse. Individuals can adopt up to 4 wild horses per year. Candidates to adopt a horse must sign a statement that says that they will not sell the horse to a slaughterhouse, for use in a rodeo, or for any commercial purpose.
Adoptions, however, may not continue for long. In November 2003, the BLM announced that rising costs may force the program to end. Instead, horses would be kept in holding centers that are cheaper to run. It costs $445 per horse per year to keep a wild horse in a holding center, while arranging for the adoption of a single horse can run as high as $1,400, the Reno GAZETTE-JOURNAL reported.
Is there any other way to control wild horse populations other than auctions?
BLM officers also use the fertility control agent PZP (porcine zonae pellucidae), a vaccine derived from pig cells. Captured mares can be injected at close range, or a dart gun can be used for those who are still free. The vaccine is effective 90 percent of the time and, according to a 2001 study by the UC Davis Center for Equine Health, does not produce any side effects in the horses. PZP, however, requires two injections, which can make using it on an entire herd a logistical challenge. The vaccine lasts for two years.
In Montana, where CLOUD’S LEGACY was filmed, a fertility control program has been in effect since 2001. Yearlings and two-year-old mares are vaccinated every year with PZP to prevent pregnancies. In 2003, the Montana BLM began to vaccinate mares that are 14 years old or older. The office says its long-term goal is to vaccinate these animals for the rest of their lives and argues that the vaccine improves their physical condition by reducing the chances of pregnancies at an age when they are less suited to give birth.
Animal-rights activists have extended a cautious welcome to PZP. The Fund for Animals argues that the vaccine is more humane than roundups, but cautions that it should not be used to delay pregnancies in young mares.
What happens to horses that are deemed not suitable for auction?
They are either returned to the range or placed in five long-term, government-run holding facilities in Kansas and Oklahoma. Stallions are gelded and pastured separately from mares. Even here, however, horses can be adopted. Postings on state BLM Web sites often feature the photos of horses up for adoption that have been placed in permanent care. Sick, elderly horses can undergo euthanasia at three centers. Privately run wild horse sanctuaries are another alternative.
Are wild horses endangered animals?
Officially, no. Currently, the bureau estimates that there are some 45,000 horses in the wild, about half of them in Nevada. By comparison, a century ago, some 2 million horses roamed the Western ranges. The BLM puts the optimal number of horses on the Western ranges at 25,000. Worried by the large costs of the adoption program (which takes up nearly a third of the annual BLM wild horse budget of $11.6 million), the BLM wants to reduce the number of wild horses on the Western ranges by half and is also reconsidering its adoption program. Equine population experts worry that reducing the number of horses in the wild could lead to a loss of genetic diversity and, ultimately, the eventual extinction of this living legend.
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They are once more in danger:
http://www.thecloudfoundation.org/6.08.html
It is wrong, wrong, wrong to kill such a strong and yet beautiful animal as a horse. Try, some thing else, PLEASE!
No wild horses should be removed this year based on the current horse market and poor economy. There are too many horses on the market and people are even giving away trained saddle horses. We are very concerned that these wild, untrained horses will not find good homes. The safest place for a wild horses is on the range, especially now.
Horses are our companions hero’s who carried us/families and our belongings across the west and built fabulous country. I am a personal witness to the courage and compassion of horses- see web site ~ spirithorsebr.tripod.com/ -
We are are one. Do not lessen our quailty of life for one horse, Cloud or any national treasure….
Barbara Ellen Ries
Considering the economy and the excess of domestic horses needing homes the range is the best place for these animals, PZP seems to be the best answer. It leaves the wild horses in their natural environment, where we want to see them while reducing their numbers gradually over the years.
Instead of removing horses get the cows off the range.
The present numbers are just a small fraction of past
numbers. They rome wild and don’t need any help from the BLM and there stupid management plan. Just leave them alone.
do we have to kill everything beautifull and natural in this world.soon
Can’t we leave anything alone?! Must the human race proove that it can control everything!! It is really deplorable to harm these beautiful, wild animals.
Man is rushing towards his own destruction, he’s just practicing on all the other species first. But when all is said and done the horse will one day see the end of man. The human race, said to be the most intelligent form of life on the planet, is, in reality, the least intelligent. Which of the animal species out there would choose to wantonly destroy their own environment and everything around them? Animals do what they do to survive, but man does what he does out of greed… the natural animal is by far more civilized than many a human being. Man messes with nature and then complains about the results, without truly doing anything to reverse those results- man the more intelligent being? You be the judge. Leave the horses alone, leave nature alone… humans are the ones who need better birth control methods, they are the most over populated specie on the planet, a truly invasive specie considering all other forms of life were here first. I am almost ashamed to belong to the human race, my heart yearns and cries with the wild ones for what is lost, and will never be regained. Shame on those who’s greed and lust for power ruthlessly destroys everything in their path… the earth will retaliate one day, and then they too will see what it is like to face extinction.
The BLM’s management program is a great way to preserve wild horses – descendants of those brought by Spanish Explorers centuries ago. People brought them in, now people are preserving and caring for them. Thousands of animals still in the wild is hardly endangered and those our there now are healthier and receive better care than the “2 million” of a century ago – which I would remind the readers is an estimate that may very well be incorrect. Humanity is far from overcrowded, except in certain spots on the planet. More and more people are moving out of the country into the city and that is making more and more room for the animal kingdom. Shame on all those who favor wantonly killing babies before they are born but want national economies to suffer from over-taxation to try and “clean up” carbon emissions that have nothing to do with climate change. Solar flares and wild animal flatus, among other natural events that we have no control over, are effecting climate change and the created order will regulate itself as it always has. It is so arrogant for us to think that we humans are the source of or the solution to the problem. In the mean while, caring for those beautiful wild horses and other practical conservation efforts should be our goal as responsible caretakers of the created order.
omg stop them form doing this lets em go
why kill such beautiful animals??????
clearly anyone who thinks that the BLM program is good for wild horses, has no sense of what is right and wrong. Shame on anyone who thinks it is ok to round up and kill any of these beautiful creatures. It is not our place! we have already driven numbers of many animals down, with our overuse of the environment, this is just another example of human greed. I agree with controlling the amount of land we people are allowed to use up and ruin. The land belongs to the horses and other animals for that matter, just as much as it does us. Birth control is a great alternative, or what ever happened to natural selection?! We have to stand up for those without a voice and help!
Man keeps messing with mother nature and eventually he WILL piss her off eventually……… I agree with the sterilization but leave them be, must we kill everything wild and beautiful that we have left?
Man needs to keep his greedy hands off some thing. Not everything in life needs to be controlled. I also believe in natural selection!
Have a great day!
Wolves are being slaughtered, buffalo, horses and burros are being slaughtered because cattle ranchers have invaded their habitats. There is no mention of the
horrific torture these animals endure at the hands of butchers in slaughter houses. Wolves are slaughtered from airplanes by the Dept. of Fish & Game, using high powered weapons. Wolf pups are shot in the head. Horses are butchered and sold to countries like Frances who consume horse meat. STOP
F—— with Mother Nature, she has a plan in place.
Has anyone ever considered that the horse is mentioned more times in the bible than any other animal. Who are we to be the executioners of this sacred and beautiful animal? For me, I want no part of the desecration and eventual extinction of GOD’s favored creature. The greed of the BLM is evident. Making more money from ranchers and farmers for grazing rights, all while invading the horses natural habitat. GREED! The root of all evil. First we take the land of the indians, now we are taking the land from the horses to give to others. GOD PLEASE DON’T LET THE BLM FIND OUT THAT THEY CAN MAKE MONEY OFF OF THE AIR THAT WE BREATH!!!!!!!!!!!
It’s no easy task to set right an imbalance that began many years before most of us were born. BLM like most government agencies means well over all..but is stuck between a rock and a hard place. the hard place in this case all us who wish these animals and all animals preserved. the Rock..the immovable force is the Cattleman’s Association. They are, like it or not, and personally I don’t much like it… a true part of our history also. Unfortunately this Association (wink I couldn’t resist one dig) if failing in keeping up their end of the loyality bargain. Where would Mr. Cattleman be if not for his Steed??? Once Cattleman could claim a proud partnership with the Horse. It was the Horse that helped him drive his 25,000 plus head of cattle to Spring or winter ranges as well as on to market. The cattle certainly didn’t fly. (psst it’s the buffalo that have wings LOLOL) For Mr. Cattleman to forget the debt that is owed to this Noble help mate is an unforgivable breach in the Long lauded Western Code or Cowboy’s creed if you will. I fear we have few Cowboys or cattlemen left at all and unfortunately we are stuck with a cheap and taudry dime store copy of a vanished (if somewhat romanticised) People. So first we killed the buffalo because we feared the Red Man … next we killed the wolves…(Hello little pigs and riding hood are stories) yes we are attempting to bring them back and it’s being fought every step of the way…Mountain Lion are also few, we complain that herd size is too big well stop killing the preditors and the balance is back…Oh and Mr Cattleman…a few preditors taking out your sick and old as well as too young to survive will make your herds healthier too…unless of course you Like spending the money on medications and vaccinations to ward off everything from anthrax to mad cow….Which way do you really want it????
Just my opinion and a few things to think about..I have more I’d like to say but I’ve alread got the beginnings of a book I yield the fLoor and hope someone can add something of value …TY
I think that the BLM should be shut down. The animals that are causing the damage to the range are the cattle and sheep not the wild horses. So the BLM has no reason to round the horses up and kill them. Another thing is that people in the U.S. do not eat horse meat so why kill the wild horses? My sister and I agree that the BLM kills the horses and sells the meat to other countries to get money. So they are killing horses for greed. I also think that anyone who agrees with the BLM and their insane ideas just doesn’t care about wild horses. I watched wild horses being rounded up and killed online. The other thing I think is that the BLM takes advantage of the wild horses. I wonder how the people that kill the horses sleep at night.
The BLM has become corrupt and irresponsible. Their purpose in wildlife and environmental “management” is unclear, and ethics obviously aren’t important to their regulations.
These mustangs have worked their way into the ecosystem and have begun evolving to the land. They exist because we brought them here, but they’re earning their place… causing no problems and suffering none until men interfere.
Was overpopulation ever a problem before cattle and sheep were introduced? Doubtful… but based on *certain* priorities, the money-making bred-for-consumption creatures win over those more suited to the land.
Hmm- and did overpopulation exist in the first place? Are the natural flora and fauna really suffering while the ground is eroding and the water degrades? Do deer starve because the horses ate all that’s theirs? Do critters fall dead because some beast pissed in the waterhole? If you can prove yes… then you better prove it was a horse. Every time. Maybe mustangs are scapegoats for a problem we worsen… or removing them is treatment for a make-believe symptom who’s cause goes unchallenged if it exists.
The BLM would have you believe it’s sound… but read and listen carefully.
What would be the cost to geld enough stallions to significantly impact future generations? Can some sort of reproductive prevention work? Separating the sexes or just insuring enough males are not reproductively successful in future generations. It may take a couple generations, but would significantly decrease the numbers.
I think the BLM should shut down for good.Mustangs have the right to rome free with no roundup purpuses.Even Cloud’s family has the right to stay free.Wether it’s one of his sons or members of his band they should stay on the Arrow Head Mountain top
Why deos evryone want ot destroy somehting so beautiful in the world?! Almost evryone in the United states loves horses. They can’t kill them!!!! :(
Without horses people would not be around. They were the main way of traveling back in the day. They were also used on farms, as working animals and how do we repay them by saying that there are too many of to survive on the land they have so people round them up and kill them. When in reality it’s all about money. Farmers think they have the right to the land these horses have been living on for years with no problem. The farmers send their animals out and there aren’t enough resources for all these animals, I agree with you guys take the cattle and other herds of the HORSES land. Have we not learned from past horrible mistakes of removing or killing an animal for its natural habitat? Take the wolf for example humans cause them to go extinct in America and the ecosystems they had lived in started dying. Humans have no right to kill or remove any animal. Humans are destructive we are the only ones that cannot live in harmony with the other animals around us, if something’s where we want to go we just “remove” it. Then when that animal or plant is on the verge of extinction we feel good about ourselves saying we are helping them when we come up with things like the Endangered Species list, when in reality this animals or plants wouldn’t need saving if it wasn’t for us. I think humans should stop being greedy and let the horses live their lives without us interfering .
Anyone who kills a horse near me is facing extinction themselves. Honestly, I wish I was a horse, so I could really see everything from their eyes, but being a horse, I would be subject to human cruelty. I want to do something to help, but what can a kid do? No-one listens to someone as young as me, whether I happen to know more than them or not. I mean, I even tear up if my cat kills a mouse! Killing horses isn’t solving anything! If they start killing brumbies, whoo boy, I’m gonna hunt them down. Not literally, of course.
okay… has anyone even read this section? where in this section does it state that they only kill horses? one sentence out of how many paragraphs… and it states only sick or elderly horses are put down… the rest are adopted to almost all loving homes… it is against the law to sell them to a Canadian slaughter house (they’re illegal in the US since around 1998)… it is a strict program… yes it does seem messed up but once again mustangs are feral animals (meaning not natural fauna to the area)… yes ranching is a problem… but its better meat then that garbage from feed lots… those cows stand knee deep in their own feces… then are pumped full of rBGH, antibiotics, & corn… this product is trash & is why there are so many problems in humans… from eating trash… so we complain… we want to eat usda organic free range cattle… where do you think they raise those animals? it sure isn’t fairy land… they raise these cattle on grass land… so all your screaming & crying won’t do anything until you wake up to reality… if you care about the horse’s land… stop eating beef that is more healthy for you… go back to eating the normal everyday garbage… either way… its a lose lose situation… sadly nobody wins because human society has become too greedy… we want everything now not later & never think of the repercussions… YOU are also to blame not just the government or corporations… but also the consumer of all these products…
Wow.. just wow… learn the facts about the BLM. Get them straight. And also, these horses are not natural, they were domestic animals (much like cattle ane sheep) that got lose. Learn why they are rounded up. Learn the problems with controlling populations. Just learn something. Stop believing everything you read and go find out for yourselves.
URGENT! –
1/2 of Cloud’s herd will be removed, Cloud too will possbile be rermoved before the 3rd episode even airs -
see the lasted post on the Cloud Foundation webpage, see the lastest BLM report. See Ms. Kathrens most recent video plea!
BLM operates out of an ignorance which is totally based on greed and money. In the laws of nature we as people have NO (zero) right to touch these sacred beings (who built this country for us)… Please see: http://www.holisticmanagement.org and see how intelligent, solution seeking people operate to live in unison with all living things. The horses running wild help to keep us safe on this planet, take them away from their domain and we begin (continue) to destroy ours. I dont like the fact that fat cat greedy decision makers who cant see past todays dollar are making moves that not only break my heart (hurting the horses) but also effect my future and survival – they have no right and they should be stopped!!!
Christianna
Executive Director
SPRING REINS OF HOPE (getting to the horse of the matter)
New York / New Jersey
Where and how would one go about learning something without reading? Would this be something like the BLM guy on the news this morning pulling dead grass out of the DESERT at the END Of SUMMER to prove the wild horses don’t have enough food – even though that is only a small part of thier FALL, WINTER, and SPRING migratory path. One can see for themselves on this mornings news show that the RANGELAND is bountiful and the horses are fat- you don’t have to be able to read to see that. News show – yes the roundup of Cloud’s herd began yesterday. After over 10,000 petition signatures. After Congressman Grijaldos protest letter. All and more is on TheCloudFoundation.org web. But, be careful you may have to do some reading.
The public need to ask for an assessment of the land conditions by an independent party and find out what 35 million dollars can do to preserve the land so there is plenty of feed for all. That is the budget stated by Abbey on The Today Show. Then you can let the Wild Horses be what they were born to be…Wild and Free to live out their lives as their creator intended.
Keep calling and e-mailing!!! Join The Cloud Foundation Blog for up to minute information on the removals. I’ve never been so sickened – report is that in a taped inteview of Don Glenn is that BLM, who promised all of these horses would be adopted, has changed their minds – some are to be sold without limitation (Burns Act) = slaughter! These may be horses you have come to love from the series and Foundation.
http://www.thecloudfoundation.org/
please read
These horses are FERAL and they do not belong in this desert landscape. Cows have a limited grazing season – horses are there tearing up fragile riparian areas and competing with native wildlife (antelope & deer) year round. There is no natural predator for these feral horses – they need to be hunted just like all non livestock animals on the range. Feral horse advocates need to do their homework and visit their public lands trashed by feral horses year round. Try visiting the Sheldon National Wildlife Refuge where cows have been removed for 15 years and see the damage caused by feral horses to fragile springs and streams. We need a Feral horse hunting season to rid the range of these animals that simple do not belong.
Regarding the BLM managed Pryor Mountain wild horses, there is NO DAMAGE, NO LACK OF FORAGE FOR WILDLIFE, WHERE THE SAME 500 YEAR OLD GENETIC BLOOD LINE HAS EXISTED SINCE LEWIS AND CLARK. The Sheldon National Wildlife Refuge is managed by U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service, not BLM.
According to the Sheldon web page they will be managing population numbers through this year until further comprehensive planning is completed in 2010. In 2007 and in 2008, according to their web page, they released this – quote: “Finding of No Significant Impact (FONSI) on Horse and Burro Management at Sheldon National Wildlife”, then all of a sudden, massive roundups were declared necesaary.
Horses and burros will be removed to 1977 and 1980 numbers and contraception would be reviewed and used if appropriate. On the Sheldon web page what I see in the before photo is a lot of green grass and very little dead bush – the steam seems to be flowing nicely, therfor I do not see what they call “riparian damage”. What I see in the after picture is a lot of dead tall brush -range fire fuel.
The refuge falls unter 1931 Executive Order, apparently not the 1971 wild horse and burro program, and indicates that horses and burros are not native to Sheldon (?) are, in large part, released FROM ranchers just 100 years ago, mixing with a few feral horses on the range at that time.
The next photo shows vegitation NOT DECIMATED or TRASHED, but at a nice GREEN height of 4 cm, instead of the patch of 35 cm, which will die, and will become range fire fuel. Hats off to Sheldon: The roundups are conducted during “NON FOALING SEASON” ending in May, unlike BLM – see Lame Foal at Pryor end of summer roundups Labor Day weekend, 2009 at thecloudfoundation.org.
Sheldon quote: “We also realize the difficulty in finding adoptive homes for older horses, so we are assessing the viability of using contraceptive techniques that would allow unadoptable animals to live out their lives on the refuge while lowering the reproductive rate of the herd.” Again, unlike BLM, who has removed the beloved Conquistador, Grumpy Gruell and several other 10 to 20 year old horses to live where, under what conditions?
Rebuttal for Leisyka. Your comment makes me fearful that you would be the 1st in line to shoot the “feral” horses. Get real. So, as long as horses are born on a ranch, etc, they are OK? Pls go out to the homeless shelters or onto the streets where a mother just gave birth to her homeless child. I guess I would say the baby is feral. Do you shoot the homeless? My guess says you are from a NW state. Montana, etc. These states take animals for granted. Just shoot em’ and that will take away the problem. Try living on the other coast where, yes, we may be over populated, but I guarantee we take better care of our wild animals. Why? We take care of God’s children-man or foal. Your opinion on life is frightening. What do you care for?
Feral is a discrimatory term that is used to justify the riddance of an animal or plant that is not wanted. Do a little research and you will find that the horse is a re-introduced native originately from this continent. The massive amounts of cows grazing on our Public Lands for almost nothing are either Herefords or Angus. By their names, guess where they came from! For that matter unless you met the Mayflower you are probably non-native—does that make you feral?
This is frightening…how would you feel if some agency came into your home and decided to kill off a few of your family members because you had too many off springs??? Animals are a living being and have the right to live, this is what’s wrong with our society today, is people like this that think thay are God and can make a life and death decision. Well, an old saying comes to my mind that YOU need to REMEMBER..WHAT GOES AROUND….COMES AROUND!!!
The BLM is a political extension of local and Washington politicians. As such, only writing to and refusing to vote for the politicians that have control of these Federal Lands, make decisions about the wild horses, and side with the cattle and sheep herders, will have an impact on the wild horses. Most ranchers have little compassion for wild horses over their own livelihood, just look at the struggle with the wolves. Nothing but the power of the polls moves politicians. You have one vote, use it.
I think we need to let the mustangs run wild…. they dont need to be caught. if we keep bringin them in there wont be anymore mustangs!! they will die out. We need to protect them for they r some livin memory of what the promise of america use to be and could be agian!!!!