The Ninth Circuit ruled today that the agency can continue to use the privately owned corrals, despite claims of pollution and inhumane conditions by Friends of Animals, according to a report by Courthouse News Service.
The November Facilities Report showed 3,210 wild horses at the ORC with a capacity of 4,000.
The BLM spends an estimated $6 million per year to care for those animals while it collects around $52,000 per year from public-lands ranchers grazing in their stead.
Nobody in the private sector would do that.
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