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A well edited version of the full story to make a point...now put the rest of the story on line.
It's a difficult issue because the wild horses are a national treasure belonging to all Americans. I hear you want to control the land and wildlife in your state but it's not that simple. 80% of Nevada land is public land that belongs to all Americans across the country. But we Americans are not the enemy. The foreign multinational corporations who want to use millions of gallons of your rural water to mine for American gold and take it to their foreign country to profit from our resources ~ our minerals. Another part of the problem is the Big Energy corporations fracking for natural gas and ruining your rural water so eventually the livestock and your crops will die . . . Then rural people will suffer and that is WRONG. We don't want rural people to suffer. We don't want your water table to drop and be poisoned. We don't want your crops or your livestock to die. We want you to prosper. We cherish the rural West. We don't want to see it ruined by energy industrialization and water contamination. We don't want to see the wildlife (including wild horses) wiped out to make way for a new agenda that disregards rural America and only respects corporate greed.
Obviously you hold a grudge against indigenous wild horses. That aside, did you know the livestock is going to be removed too? Why? Because the energy and the extractive industry wants the public land and your grazing land. Did you know this?
I have seen a lot of damage to watering holes by cattle. Did you know the Princeton University recently published papers proving that wild herds help heal the land and reverse desertification so the LIVESTOCK can thrive. The wild horses are not your enemy but are the multinational corporations?
American wild horses are indigenous.
That's old news. Przewalski is just a breed. American wild horses are indigenous. The horse originated here. http://www.facebook.com/ProtectMustangs#!/photo.php?fbid=384269111632114&set=a.240625045996522.58710.233633560029004&type=1&theater
If the BLM had managed this Herd Mgt Area (HMA) correctly - this roundup would not have been needed in the first place! They should have removed the livestock in anticipation of the drought - not scheduled a roundup in advance and left the livestock to use up the resources that legally belong to our “wild and integral” horses! Now these Mustangs are being rounded up and going to the horrible holding facilities, at the tax payers expense, again! The BLM must do better for the US Tax Payer and our constitutionally protected wild ones! Out of the 250 million acres of tax payer land the BLM manages, the Wild horses are only permitted on 10% - while 66% is open for livestock use -Drastic changes must be made to this broken system - before our wild ones are gone forever!
Have you ever seen what feral horses do to a water spring? Same thing cows do. Destroy it.
So, should the "wild boar" (AKA Feral Hogs) of the southeast USA get the same designation? If not, why not.
Przewalski's horse (Equus ferus przewalskii) -- pronounced "sheh-val-skee's", according to the Smithsonian National Zoo -- is the last of the world's truly wild horses, a designation it earned by always resisting any attempt at training. As a matter of note, the famous mustang that ranged in great free-running herds across the plains of Texas was not a truly wild horse. It descended from domesticated Andalusian horses imported by the Spanish, and it would submit to training. The End!
Common Cents you need to change your name to Plug Nickel. Your lack of credible research proves you're just one of those who has nothing better to do than argue on some site somewhere trying to further your feelings of self worth. If you want to play come better prepared.
Common Cents you should change your name to Plug Nickel. What a diaper load. Any grazing animal will "damage" the range land the studies have shown cows are the absolute worst offenders...not the horses. You pander to people who you think either don't know better or will not check your info. You are obviously under researched.
I agree wholeheartedly, Deb; some folks just see the words 'wild' and 'horse' in the same sentence and start foamin' at the mouth with rage, spewing some obnoxious diatribe picked out of a 1950's newspaper article on the evils of mustangs. Spent this weekend at a favorite haunt, looking for wild horses and found, instead, 20 Public Lands cattle laying in the remnants of a riparian stream. I have nothing against cattle but I do find spewers particularly offensive when they bounce down this same old singular and tired road with nothing more than their rabidity as evidence. It would be almost laughable if it weren't so painful to read.
Once again to "Common Sense"...the science does hold up to the description as indigenous. Study up a bit.
To "Common Cents" Obviously you have not gone out to the BLM roundups to see that in most areas of the west the mustangs look just like the photo and better. This is not a misleading photo, by any means. Post your own photos (documented) to the contrary.