Wild horse advocates to meet with BLM Instead of gathering free-roaming wild horses in Southern Nevada this weekend, Bureau of Land Management officials will attend a gathering of wild horse advocates to discuss what can be done to keep horses and burros crowding Western ranges from being killed by lethal injections. That's what will probably happen, a BLM spokesman said, if the herds can't be kept in balance with the environment where they live while costly facilities to hold those captured are at capacity and adoption outlets are saturated. "Because we have the legal authority to euthanize excess horses and burros, we're saying we have to consider these alternatives because there is no indication our budget is going to go up in any substantial degree," said Tom Gorey, the BLM's spokesman in Washington, D.C., on wild horse issues. He said nearly 74,000 horses were taken off ranges in 10 Western states between 2001 and 2007. Some 44,000 have been adopted out, leaving about 30,000 in short-term and long-term holding facilities. Government cowboys have left 29,500 free-roaming wild horses on the ranges along with 3,500 wild burros. About half those animals, roughly 16,000, are in Nevada....