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Will Killing 45,000 Wild Horses Save the American West?

A Bureau of Land Management advisory board recommended selling or killing 45,000 wild horses and burros to save the rangeland ecosystem – but the proposal has been far from popular with the public.

Will Killing 45,000 Wild Horses Save the American West?

[DIGEST: Washington Post, New York Times, WH&B Advisory Board]

The conservation attempt began with noble intentions: to save wild horses and burros from certain extinction. In the 1960s, cowboys and other business owners hunted these symbols of American freedom and independence across the West for use in cheap pet food. In 1971, Congress passed the Wild and Free-Roaming Horses and Burros Act, making it a crime to kill the animals on public land and placing them under the protection of the Bureau of Land Management. Which makes it all the more strange that BLM’s advisory board is now recommending that 45,000 wild horses and burros be either euthanized or sold.

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