New Interior Secretary Sally Jewell said
Tuesday that she is still undecided about how to handle a burgeoning
wild horse and burro population that is eating more than half the horse
budget at the BLM and sparking outrage among wild horse advocates. Jewell
said in an interview with The Denver Post that she is awaiting a
National Academy of Sciences study, slated to come out in early June, to
determine how best to handle the horses. "It's going to help
identify what's the sustained capacity of our public lands to handle our
wild horses, what is the effectiveness of things like birth control
methodology to try and deal with the issue," Jewell said Tuesday. "So we
appreciate their help and we look forward to that response." There
are more wild horses and burros roaming federally managed rangelands
today than there were in 1971, when Congress passed the landmark Wild
Free-Roaming Horses and Burros Act that protects these iconic animals. There
are 11,000 more than the range is supposed to currently sustain and
another 51,000 holding in pricey short- and long-term corrals and
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