Thirty thousand wild horses are stacked in government-supported holding facilities -- more horses than are found on the open range. The program costs more than $70 million per year, but an ambitious plan to cut costs and improve conditions for the horses has been bottled up within the Bureau of Land Management for more than three years, in part because cattle ranchers don't like it. Businesswoman and philanthropist Madeleine Pickens has spent years trying to coax the BLM into trying something different, because it is clear what they've been doing isn't working. She's also spent more than $13 million of her own dollars building an eco-sanctuary that would be good for the horses, good for taxpayers, and a boost for tourism in rural Nevada. But the BLM is still dragging its feet, which has given cattle ranchers plenty of time to muddy the waters. Pickens says she's going forward whether they like it or not. The scenes are straight out of Zane Grey. There are bands of rambunctious wild horses, kicking up dust and sage on the same range where the first horses on earth once galloped and evolved...more
Here's the video, where you'll learn Madeleine Pickens is a heroine and those evil ranchers run the State of Nevada and the BLM.
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