The adoption pipeline is flooded with wild horses and burros because the WHB Act no longer affords the protections sought by Velma Johnston. These animals are being forced off public lands in the western U.S. to make way for privately owned cattle and sheep. The problem is not wild horse overpopulation, it is public-lands ranching.
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Western Horse Watchers Association 