Yeah, that’s reasonable. There are horse rescue operations in that area and all over the West that could take care of that.
But there’s no real threat of mass horse destruction of habitat or niche exapansion. There’s hardly any of them. This is just more exaggeration by the CBD, which is a bunch of Leftist jerks in Tucson. They use straw man endangered species arguments to accomplish draconian shut downs in Arizona and New Mexico like others on this thread have pointed out.
They simply want all humans out of any areas except well confined places where everyone will live in high rise appartments (”own nothing and be happy”) and only occasionally be let into the pristine forests on a viewer trolley chaperoned by an Enlightened One, preferably a paroled Earth First! terrorist.
Grew up in Southern Arizona, saw my first black bear out the back door in a cabin on Hawley Lake in like ‘64; used to groove out on the wilderness around Hannagan’s in the early 80’s back when the road was still 666. Never saw a wild horse. That’s how friggin’ rare they are.
“Never saw a wild horse. That’s how friggin’ rare they are.”
I’ve been in the area since the late 80’s and haven’t seen a wild horse either. The CBD is f**king BAD news…