What if the herd was well within the True AML but the government got rid of them to protect the public-lands ranchers?
If “overpopulated” stirs you to a sense of duty, then you need to be in Florence, CO this weekend for the Sand Wash adoption, as described in this BLM news release.
RELATED: Sand Wash Roundup Over.
Western Horse Watchers Association 
No I would not adopt and give credence to the fraudulent and waste of taxpay dollars to the BLM extraction and Conversion of protected Wildlife. What other protected species can be adopted and end up in a 24 ft coral or slaughterhouse? Amend the fatally flawed Resource Management Plans to include wild equids as a Protected RESOURCE. Herds are composed of distinct population segments (dps) of a special status species, also a native American natural and cultural RESOURCE.
https://scholarworks.law.ubalt.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1152&context=all_fac.
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“The protection of habitat of listed species of animals is accomplished
not only by governmental acquisition and preservation of habitat, 11 but also
by restrictions on both private and governmental actions that adversely
modify or alter the habitat of protected species of fish and wildlife. 12 Under
section 5 13 ·Of the ESA, the federal government is authorized to acquire land
in order to protect wildlife habitat as part of conservation programs for
endangered and threatened species, “before the seller’s activity has harmed
any endangered animal.” 14 Land also may be acquired under section 5 of the
ESA to prevent “modification of land that is not yet but may in the future
become habitat for an endangered or threatened species.” 15
In addition to restrictions on the modification of wildlife habitat
under the ESA’s takings prohibitions, section 7(a)(2) 16 of the ESA prohibits
actions carried out or assisted by the federal government that threaten either
to extinguish a protected species or to modify adversely the designated
habitat of a protected species. ”
Please note that protected and listed are not interchangeable terms. Also, that USFWS has neglected to list wild equids that are threatened, endangered, and extinct by the malfeasance of the agencies responsible for their preservation.