[jazusamo]

Animal rights nazis want to remove domestic livestock from BLM lands so "romantic symbols of the American West" (non native horses) that are productive for nothing can thrive. You just can't make this stuff up.

[jazusamo]

Please bump the Freepathon and donate if you haven’t done so!

[jazusamo]

AR Nazis Ping!

[bitterohiogunclinger]

Tried the new “Palamino” burger at Wendy's yet?

[Mikey_1962]

Well horses are an “Invader” species brought by the hated Spanish and deserve to die.

Right envirowackos?

[vetvetdoug]

I agree. Open up the horse slaughterhouses and start canning the horsemeat for the poor and sell the sides of horse to the Europeans. I am seeing way too many horses neglected and starving because there is no bottom to the industry. The good intentions have been a disaster IMO to the horses. At least when they go to a slaughterhouse they die quickly. Starving takes months.

[HiTech RedNeck]

Having a cow, or maybe not having a cow is a better way to put it.

[1rudeboy]

There is a private sector solution to this problem: Madeleine Pickens has offered to take the 30,000 or so wild mustangs onto her ranch/reserve for them, and the gubmint is blowing her off.

Presumably, the government is doing so in order to give the wackos on both sides something to scream about, and to kick the can down the road until the government is the only one left to solve the problems it's created.

Oh, btw, beef producers . . . check the price of beef, lately? You don't need the land, either.

[GinaLolaB]

Well, I love cows and horses, so I think the humans should stop interfering with the animals. The idea of “livestock” makes me sick. Why don't people stop exploiting animals? People suck when then exploit animals.

[george76]

BLM livestock grazing has declined by about 50 percent since 1941.

USFS likely even worse.

Owning remote farm land with good water rights seems like a good idea.

The AR , PETA , city liberals who want to subdivide the former range will fuss when their food prices go up.

[oldenuff2no]

I'm a horse owner, I'm ranch raised, I've hunted and ridden much of the country they are talking about so I know a bit about this subject first hand.
The wild horses that are out there are inbred crap. Just the law of numbers and nature. There are way more of them than the country can support. Everywhere you ride in horse country you know you are in horse country. The horse manure is consistently endless and every other gully one crosses is littered with horse bones. Camping with horses or riding in that country is a royal pain. The wild studs are always causing problems.
I keep asking the horse worshipers what we are going to do with these inbred runts?? The only thing they come up with is that we are supposed to feed them.
I have visited the holding area near Reno. The dairy quality alfalfa is stacked three squeezes high, 6 wide and a half mile long. This is green gold, very expensive hay. They feed these stupid mustangs better hay than I can afford for my own animals.
It just keeps going and going and at every turn the taxpayers loose their butts. If you want to see a very sad situation go and take a look at what is going on with these worthless nags. It starts bad and goes way past stupid.

[mickey finn]

Wild horsed should be managed like any other wildlife. Wild horses are not uncommon and are overpopulated in areas. They are an introduced species to the west, and they are very successful, too successful in some areas. In these areas the need to be selectively culled to make the herds healthier for the long run. Management of herds is a good thing, and as in the management of the herd of Kieger Mustangs in the Southeast area of Oregon (descendants of the original Spanish horsed brought over many moons ago, and managed as a group so their bloodline remains as pure possible), it also makes these animals desirable to own.

Most Americans don't eat horse but I have heard it is good. Lots of cultures around the world eat it with relish. Some people eat dogs. I don't, but that is my decision. Our state also has too many sealions, and they also need to be culled. The natives used to eat them. After they were protected they have become way overpopulated.

Not long ago, these horse herds were managed. The BLM rounded them up and utilized them. Some were sold to people as pets and others were slaughter's and the meat was sold, and the herds still thrived.

Now our government wants to spend 3/4 of a billion dollars to round up an feed these animals in areas where the herds are too large. I don't think we need to do this, as the money should not be spent, and a new solution does not need to be utilized.

[GladesGuru]

Unmanaged wild horses are basically range maggots.

Pro horse nuts are intellectual maggots.

‘Nuff said.

Oh, I forgot - “EAT MORE HORSE”.