The agency has awarded two grants totaling more than $4.7 million to accelerate the placement of excess animals into private care, according to today’s news release.
The Mustang Heritage Foundation received approximately $4 million and Mustang Champions received $750,000.
Use of the term “excess” reinforces the overpopulation narrative.
If ranchers operating in areas identified for wild horses and burros were confined to their base properties, all of the off-range corrals and long-term pastures could be emptied, several times over.
Huge savings can be realized by ending public-lands ranching, not by removing these animals from their lawful homes.
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