Wild horses ‘create chaos’ at cemetery

Wild horses have been finding their way into Green River’s historic Rimview Cemetery and have been “creating chaos” in recent weeks, says city official Allan Wilson. Wilson, the parks, projects and facilities manager for the Green River Parks and Recreation Department, said city officials received an anonymous tip last week that wild horses were tearing up the cemetery and leaving large amounts of manure on lawns and pathways. The animals also toppled monuments and headstones, which were scattered about, some several feet from their original location. A city crew was dispatched Friday to clean up the mess that was apparently made by more than a dozen wild horses. Riverview Cemetery is located just across Interstate 80 on the city’s northern most point. The cemetery lies adjacent to Bureau of Land Management public lands. The grounds have a permanent fence protecting the acreage halfway back toward the northeast end of the property. Wilson said it was easy to see the various ways in which the wild horses were getting past the fence and into cemetery grounds. “We need a permanent fence line that will run all the way around and protect our cemetery grounds or this ... will continue to happen in the future,” Wilson said in a media release...read more