I just read an article on Walletpop about the top 25 things vanishing from America. The countdown covers a lot of things that will surely not be missed and other things that definitely will. It bothers me that animals ever appear on these lists, it just doesn’t seem…no wait, it just isn’t right. Number 8 on this list stood out more to me than any others however – Wild Horses.
Apparently Wild Horses are vanishing from America, but not for reasons you would think. They aren’t vanishing for lack of food or poaching; they aren’t vanishing like all the fish in the sea because America lives on a diet of horse meat and just can’t get enough. Wild horse populations are actually thriving. So why did they make this list? They made this list because the BLM (US Bureau of Land Management) is killing them off in mass numbers in order to “control” their population which “prevents them from starving.”
These horses mainly exist within states and areas where you can literally drive for hours and see absolutely nothing but sagebrush with no civilization in sight; yet the BLM feels that there are too many of them on public lands and they need to spend $50 - $70 million dollars a year to kill horses. Yep, you read that correctly, $50- $70 million of your tax dollars are being spent yearly to euthanize horses.
True, the BLM does what they think is best for landowners and for the horses. They do try to get some horses adopted or onto private land where they can live, but they are called Wild Horses for a reason, let them be wild. Let nature run itself BLM.
Here is a little more information on this subject if you care to further investigate and form your own opinion:
Wildhorse Preservation.com
Wild Horse Blog
BLM Wild Horse info
BLM Horse adoption program
Do something and do it now!
JD
