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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.

You don’t understand the program, pilgrim. First, we round these animals up, then we pass a law forbidding their (humane) slaughter, then we keep them alive at your expense, then we forbid them shelter, then we propose a government program to provide them shelter.

Good post and you’re right. I hunted a good many years in Eastern OR where there used to be wild horses but they disappeared some years back. Don’t know if BLM rounded them up or if ranchers shot them but they aren’t there now.