Sadly, this mandate has been largely ignored. The Bureau of Land Management’s Wild Horse and Burro Program and related federal land management policies are so flawed that the long-term survival of ...
But those days are gone after a November roundup corralled the last members of the semi-wild herd of “marsh ponies.” They will live out the remainder of their lives on local farms. The end of ...
Wild horses in captivity now outnumber those in the wild. When Congress passed wild horse protection in 1971, the government estimated 17,000 wild horses and burros roamed across 10 western states.