Issues of concern to people who live in the west: property rights, water rights, endangered species, livestock grazing, energy production, wilderness and western agriculture. Plus a few items on western history, western literature and the sport of rodeo... Frank DuBois served as the NM Secretary of Agriculture from 1988 to 2003. DuBois is a former legislative assistant to a U.S. Senator, a Deputy Assistant Secretary of Interior, and is the founder of the DuBois Rodeo Scholarship.
Wednesday, May 24, 2017
BLM Proposes Unrestricted Sale of Unadopted Wild Horses
The Bureau of Land Management has released their proposed 2018 budget, which a proposed $70.7 million for management of the Wild Horse and Burro program, a reduction of $10 million. Hidden in the proposed budget is a single sentence that could end the life of nearly 50,000 horses.
The proposed budget calls for a management plan “including humane euthanasia and unrestricted sale of certain excess animals.” The unrestricted sale of excess horses would most certainly mean they would be sold for slaughter. Whether the BLM is seeking funding to humanely euthanize the excess horses, or is simply planning on selling them to the highest bidder, remains to be seen...more
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now we will see if congress has the guts to BLM on this order. finally a million cans of mustang stew is on the horizon
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