This is just more over-reaching by the Wild Horse Annie types to try to get the “mustangs” legal protection that wildlife has in the Great Basin.
They should be careful for what they wish, however, because other wildlife is hunted to control the population. If they want to make the argument that mustangs are really wildlife, then there is a very long and wide paper trail that specifically states that wildlife management is the province of the states, and in Nevada (where about 50% of the “wild” horses exist) the Nevada Division of Wildlife would be perfectly happy to issue tags on horses.
Hey Dave! We have quite a few wild mustangs in my neck of the woods too (in the Great Basin region of eastern California, just on the other side of the Nevada border).
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Change their classifacation from *wild* to *feral* and it’s a whole different ballgame.
http://www.reuters.com/article/environmentNews/idUSSYD6405820071111