Five new public-private partnerships could place an additional 11,000 wild horses and burros into private care over the next five years in exchange for $25 million in funding, according to today’s news release.
That’s on top of the existing adoption program.
Leading the way is Forever Branded, a Texas nonprofit that will receive over $16 million.
Western Horse Watchers believes that these programs will not reduce expenditures for off-range holding but will accelerate turnover so more wild horses can be removed from their lawful homes.
The off-range corrals could be emptied several times over by confining the ranchers to their base properties in a year-round off season.
The agency spends tens of millions of dollars every year stockpiling wild horses so it can collect a few million dollars in grazing fees from the ranchers.
Nobody in the private sector would do that.
Western Horse Watchers Association 