WASHINGTON, Sept. 23 -- The U.S. Department of the Interior's Bureau of Land Management issued the following press release:
WASHINGTON - The Bureau of Land Management is taking urgent action to protect wild horses and burros from increasingly harsh on-range conditions caused by extreme overpopulation and severe, widespread drought. Today, more than 85,000 wild horses and burros live on public lands in the West, even though the landscape can sustainably support only about 25,500. This level of overpopulation is more than three times what the available resources can support, which means herds in every state are experiencing reduced forage availability, limited water, and escalating risks as they head into fall and winter.
To prevent sufferi...