Wild Horses in Nevada and the BLM

  Wild Horses are being removed in Nevada off public lands by the BLM in record numbers, they are rounded up by helicopter and herded to pins to be transported to holding pins, here they will either be moved to a private ranches or remain at  state facilities  for the rest of their lives. The Wild Horse known as wild Mustangs have lived off this land back as far as anyone knows, horses helped our settlers in every fashion of live from transportation to farming well before the automobile was ever invented. Now in Nevada they are seen more as a nuisance to most farmers since cows are now being placed on BLM land.

The BLM stands for the Bureau of Land Management, Since 1971 the BLM has removed over 270,000 horses from land that was designated for the wild horses to live on, they have also taken away more than 20 million acres of wild horse habitat on public land that was protected by Congress because it was necessary to sustain an existing herd or herds of wild horses and burros and is devoted principally to their welfare. According to some sources the BLM is fencing off reservoirs and saying that there is insufficient water to maintain wild horses, its hard to find a creek in this area so usually there is either a reservior or a standing water hole.

 Wild Horses only make up .004625 of the 8,000,000 head of livestock grazing on BLM land which is public lands.

I myself was pretty unaware like a lot of citizens until I received the email below, would you please go and look at the info contained on the links and see for yourself. You can go here to read all the info about adoption horses. The email below is from one of our readers.

Aunt Glo,

I had wanted to write an article about Nevada's wild horses, but I don't think it can wait for me to research and put together. The Reason being that even though they are on our state quarter, they are being exterminated by the thousands.  There are wild horse "round-ups" several times a year in Nevada.  These are mentioned on the news here, along with a phone number to call to adopt a horse.  This makes everyone have a warm and fuzzy feeling, thinking these horses will get a good home, but that's not what happens.  More often than not, the horses are not for adoption.  Believe me; I had called back when Tommy still had a corral.  The Nevada Bureau of Land Management had been misleading people for years, but now the truth is coming out.  A large number of these horses are being euthanized. 

Basically, the horses are a nuisance, especially if cattle are involved, but there are still resources for both.  I don't get it.  Even if there really isn't enough food and/or water why nature can’t takes its course and allow the strongest to survive?  You don't see documentaries about Africa showing hippo round-ups when water is scarce, or lion round-ups when the Wild beasts aren't migrating.

Healthy herds are even being removed.  Helicopters are being used to round them up, running strong horses until they die from broken limbs trying to escape.  It's sad.  I'm not a tree hugger who would save a frog at the risk of human beings.  I just haven't seen enough evidence for this to make sense.  On the news tonight I just heard about a plan to remove 25,000 more horses.  I went on-line to find that article, but only found the attached.

I feel this is very important for all horse lovers and animal lovers in general.  Please see if Wayland can post any of the below articles. The second one is actually a link to the subject where several articles can be found. 

http://www.lasvegasnow.com/Global/story.asp?S=11285225

http://www.lasvegasnow.com/global/Category.asp?c=63593

Thanks and love you,

Tammy