Reader comments: Budget crunch may endanger wild horses

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Frank Mancuso | 6:21 a.m. July 7, 2008
If the BLM is out of funds then let it stop functioning like any other mismanaged business. The mandate is for "Free Roaming Wild Horses" If they can't be managed for $36M then something is broken. Would they be any worse off fending for themselves then stored in holding pens? Of the two options the BLM is offering mercy killing or leaving them alone I choose the later.
TNT Ranch | 8:44 a.m. July 7, 2008
Bureau of land MIS-management has for years been guilty of poor management and questionable ethics when it comes to the wild horses. Mass graves of horses have been found, not all were "sick or infirm horses" but mares, foals and stalions. BLM wranglers have been allowed to "adopt" horses that are eventually sold at sales for slaughter. This is just another smoke and mirrors trick to cover up BLM's poor management of the wild horse program.

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A small herd of wild horses makes its way through the Virginia Highlands area a few miles north of historic Virginia City, Nev., in late June. (Marilyn Newton, Associated Press)
Marilyn Newton, Associated Press
A small herd of wild horses makes its way through the Virginia Highlands area a few miles north of historic Virginia City, Nev., in late June.
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