‘The Wild Horse Is Us’

Save the horses - if we wouldn't keep filling all our open space with concrete and more and more people there would be space for our wildlife, not only horses.

There is no reason to kill these horses. If there are budgetary cuts to be made, then cut it elsewhere. You do not kill living creatures just to save money. How about we save money by spending our tax dollars wisely, instead of spending them on our "politicians" ? They all should be working for us - the People - for FREE!

All these comments on the horse not being "native" to this country......hello!! If you're white you're not native to this country either! What difference does being native to this country have in this situation? If a living creature isn't native it can be freely killed???? Come on...get real! The mustang is part of our heritage, culture and history, a living, breathing animal and should be treasured as the American icon it truly is.
You people who advocate getting rid of the living simply to preserve your tidy way of life.....try witnessing wholesale slaughter and see it for what it REALLY is! Believe me, it easier to talk and write a line of poo than it is to see it in color!!!

This is a hopeless discussion. As long as people in this country are unwilling to admit that we are eventually going to diminsh all that originally made this country great, the future does not look promising for our children. Afterall, we are so consumed with what benefits us as individuals that we pay very little attention to the impact of our actions over time. Who looks forward? If what the majority prefers that we mine, drill, and occupy every stitch of land available, then what is left? There has to be balance and at some point, we have to stop thinking with our collective wallets and be mindful of the legacy we leave behind - as a country.

How about fewer people - maybe America should limit how many kids we have over population is a big problem everywhere

What some people can not get past is that the Wild Horse and Burro Law, does not mean a return to historic numbers, or that they can not be managed. It specificaly states they are to managed on the ranges they were located on, at the time of the enactment. It further states they are to be managed inaccordance
to the enviromental capaicity of each area. The numbers were set to be no more
than 27,000 horses as being the capacity those ranges could support. The BLM
lands are to be managed in accordnace to the Mutli-use designation of the lands,
which includes Public use and grazing.

Here is the link to the actual law as it pertains to the horse and burros. read it !
http://www.wildhorseandburro.blm.gov/92-195.htm


Wild Horse management areas are not in every state out west, nor does every ranch have a wild horse management area sharing its land. Cattle are grazed 3 months out of year. Horses are on it 12 months a year.

People are running on emotions instead of facts.

I would gladly donate money to save the wild horses. Our government spends huge amounts of money on committees to tell us things logic already tells us. These horse have every right to be able to roam freely. If sheep farmers have a problem with the wild horses; they invented this thing a long time ago called a fence. Give it a try.

I just watch 60 Minutes and the goverment sents 8 Billion on saving the salmon but can't save the horses. What wrong with that picture??

Wild horses did not survive the ice age. The last wild horses in the America died at the end of the last ice age (probably used as food for the early settlers (Indians)). Wild horses were extinct in the new would until the Spanish reintroduced them when they conquered Mexico in 1519. The Mustangs here now are decedents of horses that got away from the Spanish or were turned loose as their owners went back to Spain.

America was built on the backs of these beautiful animals. This is how we return the favor ?

There is a petition for Cloud's Herd - please sign: http://www.thepetitionsite.com/1/save-cloud-and-his-wild-herd

Also, please pass the word!

Call and write the BLM, your Senators and your Congressmen. Time to end the reign of the incompetent BLM.

Our country has become so barbaric., this is a horrific genocide attempt against wild horses. They should line up all of the drug dealers, gang members and sexual preditors and shoot them, then with all the money we save on free court cost for them and the money we save on housing and food while they are in jail could be used to feed and house the horses. These horses are a part of our heritage as a country, we should be protecting them instead of slaughtering them. Change your adoption rules so the people would want to and be able to adopt these animals, and the burros as well. The courts prosecute people every day in court for animal abuse, isn't this animal abuse. What kind of person can look a horse in the eye and just shoot it? Maybe that says a lot for Mr. George Bush!

How about we euthanize all of the inmates on Death Row that are over-crowding US prisons- that us taxpayers are paying for instead of killing off perfectly innocent animals. They are not destructive or propose a threat to society... so as Thomas Wolfe put it best: LIVE AND LET LIVE.
Why does the US Government feel the need to play God???????

Once again, U. S. government is proposing treating the symptom, rather than the disease. The real issue is not that euthanasia is the answer to creating a ???manageable??? population of wild mustangs (and what is more manageable than zero?). Any good manager will tell you that ???mismanagement??? stems not from the lack of materials, whether that be money or land, but from the inefficient and often selfish choices of the managers themselves. Clearly the first point of mismanagement was in thinning the wild herds; they are now on the road to extinction. A viable answer is certainly to try to reintegrate the corralled horses back into the wild population. However, that is not the real issue at hand. The real issue is: where will American???s draw the line between profit and protecting the environment? The real issue is that the wild mustang herds are more profitable dead, when their land can be used for cattle ranching and the infinite financial gains that idea implies. How many times in our history has the government let ???profit,??? whether in the form of money, land, or oil, lead to a decision of which we are still suffering the consequences? Take a good look at the issues within our election campaigns and ask yourself Americans: Is our government and our leaders offering solutions to the ???symptom??? or are they actually offering solutions to the disease? When you treat a symptom ??? you are still ailing ??? still dying. We conquer only when we treat the disease.

Dilbert is a pompous pseudo intellectual ass who obviously strives to use big words to impress, but impress whom?