The knives are sharpening again. Not satisfied with removing 2 million acres from public monument lands, the Trump administration wants to reduce wild horse and burro herds to near extinction levels and to legalize killing these federally protected animals.
Leading the pro-slaughter charge are Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke and Utah Rep. Chris Stewart. Claiming to be horse lovers, they defend the plan with misinformation, untruths, and ignorance.
The Interior Department’s 2018 budget proposes unlimited sales of “unadoptable” wild horses and burros held by the Bureau of Land Management. The plan authorizes killing captive wild equines in holding and destroying free-roaming wild horses and burros the BLM says are “excess” on the range.