BLM Seeking Pasture for 6,000 Old Mustangs
by Quarter Horse News Staff
Posted: Friday, May 15, 2009
The Bureau of Land Managment is looking for pasture for up to 6,000 wild horses that are unlikely to be adopted. According to an article at the Salt Lake Tribune, the BLM has 11 pasture refuges in Oklahoma, Kansas and South Dakota along with numerous short-term holding corrals, including three in Utah the agency is "maxed out" with 30,000 mustangs in captivity.
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The U.S Bureau of Land Management has plans for two more long-tem holding facilities for wild horses. This, animal activists insist, is not the right solution. Horses, they say, need to be on the range not in corrals.
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