{"id":1979931,"date":"2023-07-21T19:26:01","date_gmt":"2023-07-21T23:26:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/governments-mustang-roundup-ends-in-shock-11-horses-horrifically-dead-after-bureau-tries-to-save-them\/"},"modified":"2023-07-21T19:30:00","modified_gmt":"2023-07-21T23:30:00","slug":"governments-mustang-roundup-ends-in-shock-11-horses-horrifically-dead-after-bureau-tries-to-save-them","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/governments-mustang-roundup-ends-in-shock-11-horses-horrifically-dead-after-bureau-tries-to-save-them\/","title":{"rendered":"Government&#8217;s Mustang Roundup Results in Tragic Outcome &#8211; 11 Horses Perish Despite Bureau&#8217;s Rescue Efforts"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">30<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fgovernments-mustang-roundup-ends-in-shock-11-horses-horrifically-dead-after-bureau-tries-to-save-them%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1979931&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><h2>The Controversy Surrounding\u2064 Wild Horses in the American West<\/h2>\n<p>Ah,\u200b the romance\u200d of\u2064 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/arsonist-affiliated-with-animal-liberation-front-pleads-guilty-to-bombing-meat-packing-plant\/\" title=\"Arsonist Affiliated With \u2018Animal Liberation Front\u2019 Pleads Guilty To Bombing Meat Packing Plant\">wild horses<\/a> \u2062still roaming the American West, totally \u2062free, entrancing all who \u2064see them.<\/p>\n<p>Not quite.<\/p>\n<p>One person\u2019s majestic vision is another\u2019s economic threat.<\/p>\n<p>But no matter where one\u2063 falls on the controversial issue of wild horses, there\u2019s got to be a\u200c better way to handle\u200d things than by\u2063 what is being done by the\u200b U.S. Bureau of Land Management.<\/p>\n<p>There are \u2063too\u2063 many horses, they say, and\u2062 they\u2019re overgrazing land desired by ranchers. And perhaps they are.<\/p>\n<p>But to many,\u2063 there\u2019s still something \u2064unseemly about how <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/biden-seizes-nearly-2-million-acres-blatant-federal-land-grab\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">the Bureau<\/a> is capturing the horses. Check out the\u2063 web site of\u2064 an advocacy group \u2013 the <a href=\"https:\/\/americanwildhorsecampaign.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">American Wild Horse Campaign<\/a> (AWHC) \u2013 and see the insect-like creature plastered across the AWHC home page.<\/p>\n<p>So\u200b terrified are the horses, that\u200c in attempting to \u2064elude the\u200c helicopters,\u200d they\u200c are injuring themselves \u2014 or worse.<\/p>\n<p>In \u200cone 11-day\u2063 stretch of being chased in Nevada by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/biden-land-management-nominee-need-stop-breeding-weapons-save-grizzly-bears\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Bureau<\/a> \u2062choppers, 11 horses died, according to \u2063a report from <a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/mustangs-roundup-deaths-nevada-federal-land-44dddb497721fe5e65542a2ca2b3eccf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The Associated Press<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>One\u2063 horse per day,\u200d dead \u2014 four of them with broken\u200d necks\u2063 and, in addition to five foals dying, a stallion euthanized\u200c after breaking his leg in the course of being chased by a \u200bhelicopter and a horseback rider.<\/p>\n<p>Helicopters may be efficient, but they should be illegal \u2062in rounding up wild horses, according to Democratic\u2063 Rep. Dina Titus, who called \u200cthe current\u200c method \u200cbrutal according to the AP.<\/p>\n<p>Interestingly, Western\u200c ranchers \u2063have a different view, and wild horses are\u200b to them the equivalent\u200b of feral pigs, according to <a href=\"https:\/\/psmag.com\/environment\/western-cattlemen-square-off-against-60000-mustangs\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Pacific Standard<\/a> magazine,\u200b quoting one rancher \u2063describing the horses as \u201cbig-headed mongrels.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>That\u2019s because by grazing, the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/horses-and-the-sport-of-kings-were-queen-elizabeths-passion\/\" title=\"Horses and the \u2018Sport of Kings\u2019 were Queen Elizabeth\u2019s passion\">horses compete<\/a>\u200b with cattle and the Pacific Standard sees it\u2062 as a clash of \u200dtwo\u2062 Western romances: free, majestic horses, and independent, live-off-the-land\u200c cattlemen.<\/p>\n<p>Yet, horse lovers and the ranchers seem to agree on one thing: the Bureau\u200d of Land Management has not\u200c done\u2064 a\u200d good job in \u2063managing the wild horse herd as required\u200c by the 1971 Wild Free-Roaming Horses and Burros Act.<\/p>\n<p>The AWHC \u200bhates that the Bureau captures horses and uses helicopters to do\u2064 it and \u200danother horse advocacy group, Colorado\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thecloudfoundation.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Cloud Foundation<\/a>, believes the government arm favors cattle grazing over the horses, according to Pacific Standard, which noted\u2063 cattle grazing is allowed on Bureau land at below-market rates.<\/p>\n<p>Ranchers believe the wild <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/were-off-track-heres-how-republicans-plan-to-move-the-needle-on-climate-change\/\" title=\"\u2018We\u2019re Off Track\u2019: Here\u2019s How Republicans Plan To Move The Needle On Climate Change\">horse population<\/a> \u2013 up from 17,000 to 70,000 since\u2064 1971 \u2013 threatens their businesses.\u00a0 Nevada Republican Sen.\u200c Ira\u200d Hansen said the horse population is out of control and there need to \u200bbe \u201csignificant horse round ups,\u201d\u200b according \u200dto NBC News.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>Horse \u2064problems caused seven <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/mark-wahlberg-says-left-ca-nevada-give-kids-better-life-hoping-turns-red\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Nevada<\/a> counties \u2064to declare states of \u200cemergency.<\/p>\n<p>For\u200c their part, AWHC believes \u200dthe land is\u200c overpopulated by livestock\u2063 and advocates controlling the horse population by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/governments-mustang-roundup-ends-in-shock-11-horses-horrifically-dead-after-bureau-tries-to-save-them\/\" title=\"Government's Mustang Roundup Results in Tragic Outcome - 11 Horses Perish Despite Bureau's Rescue Efforts\">shooting chemical birth control darts<\/a> into wild horses,\u200d but Hansen \u2064said\u2064 that with a wild horse \u200cpopulation growth rate of 20 per cent per year, that would take too long.<\/p>\n<p>The \u2063post <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/governments-mustang-roundup-ends-shock-11-horses-horrifically-dead-bureau-tries-save\/\">Government&#8217;s Mustang Roundup Ends in \u2064Shock &#8211; 11 Horses Horrifically\u2063 Dead After Bureau Tries to &#8216;Save&#8217; Them<\/a> appeared first \u2064on <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\">The Western Journal<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ah, the allure of untamed horses in the American West, captivating all who witness their freedom. Yet, perspectives differ on whether they are a majestic sight or an economic concern. Regardless, there must be a more effective approach to managing wild horses than the current methods.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2018,"featured_media":1979932,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[548],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1979931","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-conservative-news-daily"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1979931","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2018"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1979931"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1979931\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1979932"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1979931"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1979931"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1979931"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}