That’s according to BLM State Director Doug Vilsack.
He wants to make the state’s wild horse program an object of celebration, not by allowing the animals to flourish in their lawful homes, but by shooting the mares with pesticide-laced darts.
Once herd numbers have been stabilized at appropriate levels, “then I think it’s going to get fun because we can sit down and think about, you know, what else can we do now that we have sustainable populations, how can we work on tourism opportunities for people to come see these horses? That would be a fantastic place to get to, to really be sitting down and thinking about how we can celebrate the wild horses and get beyond some of the controversy that we’ve seen when we do these gathers,” he told a reporter with The Grand Junction Daily Sentinel.
Only the ranchers, not mentioned in the August 25 article, will be celebrating.
A keyword search of the story yielded these results:
- Allotment – No occurrences
- Grazing – 0
- AUM – 0
- Forage – 0
- Livestock – 0
- Horse/horses – 42
- Fertility control/controls – 13
- AML – 5
- Adoption/adoptions – 2
- Sanctuaries – 1
No bias here, no attempt to hide the truth.
The writer and his employer are not shills for the public-lands ranchers.
The herds are managed exactly as Velma and the 92nd Congress intended.
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