Future?
34 WHEMAGAZINE. MAY 2018
Last year (2017) then state director of Nevada, John Ruhs, presented his vision for the federal wild horse program to the Nevada State Legislature. He envisioned a program where the livestock operator caught, shipped and essentially managed our wild horses (for a paycheck).
The BLM has demonstrated, repeatedly, their inability to provide transparency, accountability and oversight. America's public horses are to be managed for the public as a resource; they are not simply another subsidy program in the making.
The future for all of our wild horses is uncertain. Not only do they have to compete with profit driven interests on the land, they also carry a profit driven interest aimed straight at them.
In 1971 the Wild Free Roaming Horses and Burros Act gave jurisdiction to the federal government. It stopped Mustanging, or an unregulated capture and sale