Trump admin pushes to annihilate this wild horse herd on 9/11 . . . public widely opposes

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19. On September 29, 2012 in an article titled "All the Missing Horses: What Happened To The Wild Horses

Tom Davis Bought From The Gov't?" written by Dave Phillips of ProPublica, he quoted Ginger Kathrens, director of the horse advocacy group The Cloud Foundation, based in Colorado Springs, as saying: "He (Davis) is just a symptom of the train wreck that is the Wild Horse and Burro program. They (BLM) just warehouse more and more horses and create their own crisis. Then, after they run the program into the ground they have to find ways out of it. It is a whole unnatural ridiculous system run amok. And who pays the ultimate price? Wild horses."

In a claim for preservation in support of their attempts to decimate the WH&B Act, cattle ranchers are asserting that the estimated 36,000 wild horses (pre-2012 numbers) and burros on public lands are damaging the public land. According to reliable estimates these same cattle ranchers are grazing millions of their cattle on our public lands. For this reason, horse activists cite "welfare ranching," as the real reason behind the cattle rancher's "preservation" claims, as ranchers lease public grazing land from the BLM for meager fees.

Currently (pre-2012) there are millions of cattle grazing on 157 million acres of public land, or two thirds of all BLM lands. The National Academy of Science has stated that this livestock consumes 70% of our grazing resources while the wild horses and burros consume less than five percent.