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Public’s Invitation To Tour Wild Mustangs Holding Pastures

The Bureau of Land Management says the problem is the herds are growing too fast on open range lands in the twelve western states. There’s about 38,000 wild horses and burros roaming the range. There’s about 12,600 held in short-term holding facilities where they get their shots and are vaccinated by a veterinarian. At that time they can be adopted. If not 28,000 go on to a long-term contracted holding pastures in the mid-west if they’re over the age of six.

The BLM manages well over two hundred million acres of federal public lands in eleven western states and Alaska. These properties are the National System of Public Lands. The BLM’s job is to make sure these range lands are to remain taken care of and not abused today and for generations to come.

The bureau accomplishes guide lines like activities of outdoor recreation, livestock grazing, energy production, mineral development and by conserving cultural, natural, historical and other resources on public lands. Those interested parties should make arrangements to go checkout these arrangements. They may work perfectly well. However, it just doesn’t make sense to me…that’s why you’ll see me there. I spent half my life working with horses in various capacities. However, these were with domestic horses.

Mustangs and burros are wild! No different than wild bears, deer, wolf, coyote, antelope, moose, buffalo, caribou and dozens of other animals classified as wild. In my experience when you capture a wild animal their scared to death! If caught in a trap they’ll chew their foot off to get away.

As an example of a wild mustangs, when you get them stampeding when their herded by helicopters‘. To begin with that’s in itself ( Federal legislature passing Public Law 86-234 which banned air and land vehicles from hunting and capturing wild horses on state land.) breaking the law.

It just doesn’t make sense to chase them down and transport them out of their natural habit. It’s hard as hell to load them! You have to buzz them with a electrical shocker and/or whips. Then haze them into chutes. Transport them 1,000 miles to a short term facility. Most likely not taken out to water and stretch their legs like you would a domestic horse, to a short term facility. Secure their heads  to vaccinate and a series of other shots. The ones that don’t get adopted…will be loaded up again to be trucked to a long-term pasture.

I must mention when the mustangs are stampeded…there’s no telling how many of the mares were in foal. There’s a good chance some die from a heart attack or a miscarriage. I must mention again, these animals are wild so when you start putting them in tight quarters some will get their legs broke or one will kick or bit the other. The yearlings and two years really don’t have a chance, next to the four year olds and older. Their use to running wild on the open plains. I would think there would be some way to control the mustangs from multiplying by leaving them where they are. Because that’s the problem of this whole situation. The Alaskan people have measures in place to control the population of their wild animals. The people in Africa have a way to control their wild animals without transporting them to new locations.

If your interested in touring the long-term holding pastures in Oklahoma then you need to call 866-468-7826 by May 20th so they can get a head count. The BLM is hosting this event on a Saturday in June from 8am-5pm. This location is about an hour’s drive from Tulsa. The visitors will be shuttled out to the pastures by the BLM from Tulsa. You can also purchase lunch there as well. It looks like a great opportunity to see first hand about the care for these wild mustangs and burros.

About the Author

Gary Cooper is a writer from Texas who was formally a race horse jockey in the United States. Stop by his site for more details at http://WildMustangsInNevada.blogspot.com

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