Swordsmyth
03-19-2019, 05:36 PM
The Department of the Interior is offering up to $1,000 to people willing to adopt a wild horse or burro, according to a press release.
The Bureau of Land Management (BLM), which runs the federal government’s wild horse and burro adoption program, launched (https://www.blm.gov/programs/wild-horse-and-burro/adoptions-and-sales/adoption-incentive-program) the new incentive program on March 12.
“The goal of the program is to reduce BLM’s recurring costs to care for unadopted and untrained wild horses and burros while helping to enable the BLM to confront a growing over-population of wild horses and burros on fragile public rangelands,” the BLM press release says.
The number of wild horses and burros on federal lands passed most areas’ holding capacity (https://dailycaller.com/2018/05/07/overcrowded-wild-mustangs-starving-to-death/) years ago. The BLM currently manages (https://www.blm.gov/programs/wild-horse-and-burro/about/data/population-estimates) roughly 82,000 animals in pastures that cannot sustainably support more than about 27,000, according to BLM data.
The federal government is required (https://dailycaller.com/2017/05/23/wild-horse-group-calls-on-trump-to-save-mustangs/) by law to remove animals over the limit that the land can support, but federally controlled corrals and private partners are at or nearing their limits. The cash incentive for adoption is aimed at taking away excess animals currently held in the corrals.
More at: https://truepundit.com/feds-offer-1000-to-adopt-wild-horses-because-they-cant-cull-them/
The Bureau of Land Management (BLM), which runs the federal government’s wild horse and burro adoption program, launched (https://www.blm.gov/programs/wild-horse-and-burro/adoptions-and-sales/adoption-incentive-program) the new incentive program on March 12.
“The goal of the program is to reduce BLM’s recurring costs to care for unadopted and untrained wild horses and burros while helping to enable the BLM to confront a growing over-population of wild horses and burros on fragile public rangelands,” the BLM press release says.
The number of wild horses and burros on federal lands passed most areas’ holding capacity (https://dailycaller.com/2018/05/07/overcrowded-wild-mustangs-starving-to-death/) years ago. The BLM currently manages (https://www.blm.gov/programs/wild-horse-and-burro/about/data/population-estimates) roughly 82,000 animals in pastures that cannot sustainably support more than about 27,000, according to BLM data.
The federal government is required (https://dailycaller.com/2017/05/23/wild-horse-group-calls-on-trump-to-save-mustangs/) by law to remove animals over the limit that the land can support, but federally controlled corrals and private partners are at or nearing their limits. The cash incentive for adoption is aimed at taking away excess animals currently held in the corrals.
More at: https://truepundit.com/feds-offer-1000-to-adopt-wild-horses-because-they-cant-cull-them/