The article is silent about permitted grazing, lopsided forage allocations that favor the ranchers and confiscation of lands identified for wild horses in 1971.
Instead of clearing these areas of privately owned livestock and giving principal use to the horses—as specified in the original statute—the BLM should use fertility control to limit the numbers according to the advocates.
The writer says nothing about its harmful effects, which the advocates conveniently ignore, evident on the Maryland side of Assateague Island and soon to appear at the Salt River and Virginia Range.
They don’t want to rock the boat.
They don’t want changes that actually help the horses.
They are allies of the bureaucrats and ranchers, defenders of the status quo.
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