BLM announces reforms to mustang management
PUZZLE…a BLM mustang at Fresh Start I really am NOT this quick on the draw…I found out about today’s announcement through a friend’s comment about THEIR friend’s link on Facebook. BLM ANNOUNCEMENT People’s reactions to this announcement seem to be a mixture of skeptical and guardedly hopeful. Change will come too late for thousands, but [...]
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Spring Creek Basin Herd Management Area – BLM 2006 Recently the Bureau of Land Management announced that the mustang budget is overrun. They are spending far more to keep the “unadoptable” mustangs in long-term and short-term holding facilities than they are to maintain the free-roaming wild horse herds. Citing rising costs of fuel and feed [...]
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Here is the link to the BLM Wild Horse and Burro Program page: http://www.blm.gov/wo/st/en/prog/wild_horse_and_burro.html And here is the link to the Statement of the Bureau of Land Management on the Government Accountability Office’s Report “Effective Long-Term Options Needed to Manage Unadoptable Wild Horses” page: http://www.blm.gov/wo/st/en/prog/wild_horse_and_burro/Statement_06_30_2008.html There used to be a feedback form about the statement [...]
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