"I love the horses, however proper management is the solution, rather than absolute protection."
I agree! And why on Earth should these horses be a problem to anyone? Wisconsin is smaller than those wide-open Western states, and there's not enough room for 30,000 wild horses? For Pete's Sake! We have a Whitetail Deer population in the MILLIONS. Could they manage the horse herd through public hunting?
I mean, it seems weird to me to hunt a horse, though I have no problem shooting deer. I think it's because we feel protective (?) and proprietory of the types of animals that we humans have domesticated over the years.
But on the other hand, we don't cry over domesticated pigs and cows and chickens being killed, do we?
My brain hurts now, LOL!
It's to make room for cattle to graze already fairly sparse pasture in public lands on lease. It isn't because the land can't support them, it's because a decision has been made about value.
I support the affordable beef that large cattle operations provide... I don't fail to see their value too, but there has to be a balance found that is better than this.
I stop short of thinking it would ever be a good idea to turn horses into a game animal to be hunted, but the answers provided in this article, either life being fed in holding pens or sale to factory slaughter, they can't be the best idea out there. We need some new ideas.