Bureau of Logging and Mining: "Let's Kill the Horses"

I can barely read the article, it's guaranteed to induce a throbbing forehead vein.

In a nutshell, the BLM has decided that wild mustangs are a nuisance to be eradicated. So they've rounded up half of the wild mustang population and are now proposing to exterminate all the horses.

Do you have any idea how many head of cattle lounge around on BLM land for years at a time? (Lots, the land is leased for cattle grazing). It is difficult to fathom how a few horses can be such a problem, but big lumberous cattle are not.

The Bureau of Land Management is a good example of a captured agency. The purpose of the agency is to maintain the land for the public good. However, private mining, timber and ranching interests have reached a position of power within the agency, such that agency decisions are made in alignment with these special private interests.

Those poor horses don't have a chance. Read the Newsweek article here.