Federal government corralling 82,000 wild horses from public lands

[@faithlewis4695]

No I am not buying it; not one of those horses look like they are starving.

[@snakey973]

If we weren't here to make sure there is enough public land for private cattle operations to graze...

[@DoubleDogDare54]

Cattle serve a useful purpose. Feral horses do not.

[@frankmorris4790]

Cattle are benificial, horses not so much. And ask the Navajo, fiftyK or so are denuding their sheep ranges and those horses arn't in the BLM number

[@snakey973]

@@DoubleDogDare54 you mean cattle make money for a private individual by grazing PUBLIC land? That's how they are beneficial? 😅

[@DoubleDogDare54]

@@snakey973 It means ranchers make use of federal lands that are suitable for no other purpose and produce food for the country as a result. Feral horses just eat the grass, drink the water and produce zero benefits to anyone from it. They are parasites in that environment.

[@francismarion6400]

@@DoubleDogDare54 Many people eat horses.

[@normanbrown9225]

It's Not about the Horses, it's about Taking control of The Land to make a Financial Profit. Just a matter of time.

[@sacramentofoodforest]

They aren’t native

[@danieldowney2678]

@@sacramentofoodforest neither are you!!!!

[@margo3367]

The fact that cattle are taking up the grazing land that used to be the Mustangs is the bottom line. Money. It’s always about money with people.

[@scottowensbyable]

Cows actually benefit the environment. Horses turn grasslands into deserts. Horses are an invasive species that harm the environment for native species. I can tell by the comments that 99% of you live in the city and have no real understanding of horses effects on the environment.

[@stacyhostler5732]

THAT O MIGHTY DOLLAR

[@ambrosiafarms]

We adopted wild horses in 2000s…I hope more people can adopt!

[@sherylvalentiner6115]

The adoption program is a scam.

[@johnnymcblaze]

KZbin hid the reply above mine, what does it say?

[@GardeninGrace]

All I can say is no - this is so wrong in so many ways. Just so you all know where these horses are going after getting rounded up: slaughterhouses. It’s happened before - and it’ll keep happening. I love how they make this seem “okay”.

[@ZorroFox-do9oe]

It's so sad people doesn't see what's really happening right in front of them

[@scottowensbyable]

The western wild lands are in a severe drought. Horses are an introduced " invasive species" that destroy the environment for native species. Yes they need to be culled. Horses turn grasslands into deserts. That is just the hard truth. Environmental problems are not solved with drawing pictures of unicorns and rainbows

[@jacobbwalters8133]

That’s not true.

[@HOHLfmly]

The cattle farmers think it’s ok

[@HOHLfmly]

@@jacobbwalters8133 than tell us

[@soulonice99]

Hmmm. 82,000 wild horses in USA in 2022. The herd 93.6 million cattle head in 2021.

[@dawnwitt8583]

I like how you see the disperity in those numbers!

[@traceebrown442]

This breaks my heart. Many horse families are broken up forever.

[@DoubleDogDare54]

Life is tough all over. Deal with it.

[@OWK000]

Not to mention broken legs.

[@fairyphotography]

better than starvation.

[@royaltyempireinc9959]

Even the animals ain’t free 😂😂😂🤦🏾‍♂️Government control wow

[@Jaden_357]

Again, we’re talking about a non-native species that shouldn’t even exist here. When the government culls or controls the spread of feral pigs, asian carp, zebra mussels, and other non-native species, nobody says a thing, but because it’s a horse, suddenly it’s wrong. Interesting.

[@67charged]

The last part of the video showed a very young foal trying to keep up, sickening

[@susansantana4454]

Another government lie, those horse do not look emaciated at all, proof there's plenty of resources for them!!! Show your proof that there's not enough resources!!

[@mycamguy]

Ikr

[@yvonneplant9434]

We saw a few horses...not most of them.

[@GardeninGrace]

They make money off sending them to slaughterhouses to make meat and animal feed. Same with sending them to auction houses.

[@scottowensbyable]

@@GardeninGrace If they removed 90% there would still be to many. Horses are an invasive species that harm the environment for native plants and animals. There is too many period.

[@HOHLfmly]

Horse’s are Indians and Cattle are White Men still stealing land.

[@westernhorsewatchers]

This was probably filmed in the Twin Peaks HMA, an area set aside for wild horses and burros on the CA-NV border. Overpopulation means more horses than allowed by plan, not more horses than the land can support. The BLM assigns most of their food to privately owned livestock. When the horses consume more than their allocated share of the forage, usually around 20% of the total, helicopters restore the imbalance. The BLM rep is correct: Helicopters are the fastest and most efficient way of shifting resources back to the public-lands ranchers. They "manage" the horses to protect the ranchers, not the other way around.

[@HOHLfmly]

True

[@chordsofgratitude2073]

The BLM needs to be desolved right along with the BIA!

[@sjwhite54]

Thank you.

[@pamelawing5747]

They could control the breeding but they won't do it. These horses are not going to have a good end. They will not be pets, they are going to slaughter even if not directly. There are groups that bid on them at auction and sell them to Mexico for slaughter. We have to remember that there is also a drought and that creates problems for everyone. Also, sagebrush is disappearing and it's effecting the entire ecosystem. Fire has burned and burned so hot the roots were killed and cheat grass is taking over. That grass burns like crazy.

[@virginiamoss7045]

Always nice to have informed and reasonable comments on KZbin. One way to help the "wild" horses is to stop eating beef. There has been some progress towards that for the sake of better human health (less meat, especially beef). The cattlemen's associations have been and are still very, very powerful politically; they are getting something for nothing and they want to keep it that way. To counter that all we can do is vote Democratic instead of Republican.

[@emilycooper6539]

Disgusting! Leave wild animals alone

[@sukn7091]

They are not wild, they are feral animals just like feral cats and pigs and they destroy the true wildlife. They do not have natural predators or population control.

[@hankmike3283]

Animals need to be managed or they all die if they consume all there resources Shows how removed you are from reality. Why don't you do something productive and adopt one then? Nope, didn't think so.

[@DoubleDogDare54]

They aren't wild animals. They are feral domestic horses. If they were dogs we'd call 'em strays. Most of them probably started out with owners or come down within a generation or two from owned horses. They are nothing special. If rather than having them bumming loose on federal land they were owned by some guy named Frank Johnson and allowed to roam loose on his fenced property the same way - stallions fighting over mares, mares having foals every year, no ready supply of food, drinking brackish water where they can find it, no shelter in bad weather, no worming or medical care, no farrier care, horses are ignored and you can't get near them if they are sick or injured - your sort would be the first to run to the authorities and complain about animal neglect and want ol' Frank arrested and fined. But having those same horses running loose on federal lands? Oh, wow! They suddenly turn into magnificent wild animals that need to be left alone, protected and admired as a symbol of our country's heritage, the soul of the Wild West! >:-(

[@Iris-hx6ox]

@@DoubleDogDare54 - And yet, it's okay for human's cattle to go grazing on lands without issue. It's the same with Deer. We destroy the their forest habitat and we think, they will just move on to another forest. However, we are at the juncture where there isn't any where else for them to go. So they stay, which happens to be the lawn of the McMansion that was just plopped down on their former home and are labeled pests. The forest that is left is so overrun that they are starving to death. So hunts are planned to cull the herds. And damn if those sanctimonious people cry about the brutality of that. Hypocrites one and all, because the truth about why it is that Mustangs, deer and other wildlife don't have enough space to live is because the locust human beings that we are. We are killing ourselves in the process of doing it, as we need them ecologically.

[@anitakristensen4679]

I bet you would be the first to complain if herds got slimmed down by starvation or sickness. Or better yet get on and run on your own property. Land can only sustain so much , why do you think they controll the population of Bison in Yellowstone park. there is nothing worse then see any animal starv to death , or from diseases.

[@johnsimms3957]

Why don't they just leave them alone?

[@seanthe100]

82,000 is way too many for them to coexist with native species

[@pedalingprospector2007]

@@seanthe100 Exactly. A old cattle rancher we used to buy our hay from once told me that you can support 7 cows on the same size piece of land it takes to support 1 horse.

[@kaseybridges5184]

@@seanthe100 That’s between 177 HMAs,meaning an average of just 463 horses per.. & that’s on 26.9 million acres.That used to be 329 HMAs on 53.8 million acres,before the blm zeroed those out. The wild horses graze on just 17% of blm rangelands,where they are vastly outnumbered by livestock.They are being removed from the land that was designated for them by Congress,to make room for greedy welfare ranchers to graze sheep & cattle.Livestock graze 50-65% of the annual forage production,leaving less than half for the native species like elk,mule deer,sage grouse & the horses.

[@kaseybridges5184]

@@pedalingprospector2007 problem is,the land was designated for the horses,but they’re being removed to make room for cattle & sheep that shouldn’t be there.

[@marlyjung4102]

@@seanthe100 not true, they evolved with native species in North America and are cospecies, good for other species, do not compete with other native specie. Even the retired blm director testified in court to that fact. 82k if that is how many out there (unverified) is one horse per hundreds of acres.

[@gloriouse4458]

PEOPLE ARE TALKING ABOUT BIRTH CONTROL FOR HORSES 🐴 THEN THEY CAN WORK ON BIRTH CONTROL FOR HUMANS, SO THEY CAN USE IT!! SAVE THE HORSES 🐴 💖

[@daledawilson3518]

when they say birth control they are castrating the males in a process called gelding

[@aliciatorres2794]

why are you taking them away from these public lands!! why? I don't understand ,what are they using these lands for? it doesn't make sense to me.

[@like_traveling_up_a_river]

Cattle ranchers insist that the horses be removed so that the ranchers can use public lands for their private businesses (cattle ranching). Horses are removed and cattle are moved in.

[@jacobbwalters8133]

Wild horses are not native to the Americas- they were introduced by Spanish colonizers in the 1500’s. Because of their importance to native tribes since then and their symbolic importance for the American west, congress passed a law protecting their existence as wild animals, but their populations must be managed to avoid overgrazing and degrading the natural environment.

[@HOHLfmly]

Cattle Ranching

[@HOHLfmly]

@@jacobbwalters8133 your not native either.

[@jacobbwalters8133]

@@HOHLfmly and human beings are also degrading the environment. That’s a separate issue. One of the ways we are degrading the landscape, however, is recklessly introducing nonnative species into various regions for our own convenience/amusement. This is no different than the issue of invasive feral cats in Hawaii or rabbits it Australia. Each species destroys the habitat for native species and must be kept in check.

[@karolanoble2858]

This breaks my heart. The majority of these beautiful free horses will be killed/sent to the horse meat factories. Their meat is a high commodity in parts of Europe. There is one such factory in rural south Missouri. Years ago I was able to rescue (for $) a horse and a donkey that were rounded up out west and at final auction before going to their death. This is just horrific:(

[@DoubleDogDare54]

There are no plants processing horses in the US as the government has not allocated funds to pay government inspectors for such plants. Horses are shipped either to Canada or Mexico for processing.

[@jlv3x]

If there are over 82,000 running wild that doesn't add up to them killing the "majority" of them for years. Overpopulation leads to starvation and sickness, that's bad for the horses just as it is for deer and rabbits.

[@karolanoble2858]

@@DoubleDogDare54 Desloge .Missouri

[@DoubleDogDare54]

@@karolanoble2858 From the USDA: ask.usda.gov/s/article/Is-Horse-meat-slaughtered-or-sold-in-the-US That plant in Missouri wanted a license to slaughter horses but it never went through.

[@karolanoble2858]

@@DoubleDogDare54 It did and still does. You truly don't believe everything the government tells you, right?

[@mic857]

I would definitely would not mind riding a horse to the grocery store . There’s so many Native American reservations in need of horses . Oh yeah I forgot the federal government can help with gathering the horses to relocating where they are needed .

[@anitakristensen4679]

Then how come reservations don't ask for them . They get the Buffalo that gets removed from the herds of Buffalo from Yellowstone park. And go ahead ride a horse to the grocery store, more power to you . I just hope if you own that horse, you take good care of it, that is including shots and deworming.

[@mermaidmomma3696]

@@anitakristensen4679 and quality shoeing! Concrete is tough on those hoofs!

[@suzanneyoung8011]

A number of Native Americans raise their own wild horses, and sadly some do not take good care of them and allow them to continue to breed indiscriminately in captivity. Nor do they get the vet care they need. I know of at least two outside families who buy horses from a reservation in Arizona and then rehab and train these horses before then finding them good homes. It's more of a rescue operation when they take in these horses off the reservations, and they always wish they could afford to save more of them.

[@Sarah-lb8cs]

Just leave those horses alone!!! Jesus…can’t we keep our hands off anything. 🤬

[@DoubleDogDare54]

So, they run out of forage and their water supply dries up, you still want them left alone and you'll tell people to keep their hands off those horses and let nature take its course?

[@Sarah-lb8cs]

@@DoubleDogDare54 Animals have survived thousands of years just fine without help from us. They’ll figure it out. But humans…..we have to be in control of everything 🙄

[@DoubleDogDare54]

@@Sarah-lb8cs A few years back I watched a video from Australia where large numbers of brumbies died around dried up water holes during a drought. That is what people will have to be okay with if you want nature to self regulate the population of feral horses out west.

[@tdp73]

Why can't they just leave those wild horses alone to live in nature? They aren't hurting anyone or anything.😡

[@jodi9290]

Because ranchers want to run cattle to make personal profit on public lands.

[@tdp73]

@@jodi9290 yes, you are right. So unfair and disgusting. Against nature.

[@scottowensbyable]

Horses turn healthy grassland into desert.

[@gamingtonight1526]

Too many horses and you have no grass and no water.

[@MarcosIsABaritone]

Pay attention to the video.

[@justmejenny7986]

We as humans need to stop thinking that we know best. Leave them alone. Let nature decide. Disgusted by this.

[@lukecoppersammy]

Was it nature that brought horses back to north America? After they naturally went extinct a few millenia ago

[@hahadarrie]

"You think you own whatever land you land on. The Earth is just a dead thing you can claim. But I know every rock and tree and creature Has a life, has a spirit, has a name. " Colors of the wind

[@marywegrzyn506]

Well said, Amen friend.

[@andrewstraub131]

You know they aren’t wild right? They are non native species that destroy environments of other native species ground nesting birds and native plants are the most visible but you can’t just add new creatures especially big creatures without dire consequences for the rest of the web

[@kalidilerious]

These horses are actually invasive and disturbed the natural ecosystem the last few hundred years.

[@snowmiaow]

They round them up safely then keep them in captivity. I knew somebody that adopted 2 of these and they were horribly depressed.

[@aikanae1]

The horses are competiting with cattle.

[@scottowensbyable]

They also compete with wildlife.

[@aitusk2116]

No, people competing for money Lobbyist get it done!!!

[@RichardRjmccoy]

“Save a horse, hire a cowboy”

[@jmcg9822]

“Oh the poor wild horses, leave them alone.” What about the poor wildlife these FERAL animals are competing with? The waterways they’re destroying, the landscape they’re overgrazing? Don’t their lives and welfare matter? Feral horses are not wild horses, they are not native here. Equus ferus caballus is not native to North America and never was, it did not evolve here, it is an introduced invasive species. True native equines like equus lambei and equus simplicidens are long extinct and didn’t even resemble modern horses, their closest equivalent resemblance would be with tarpans, onagers and zebra, and they belonged to a much different environment. Arguing that feral horses are natural to the land and therefore belong here with their numbers unchecked would be the same as arguing for the introduction of elephants and African lions into North America. Mastodons and Columbia. mammoths once lived here did they not? One of the primary predators of the wild equines here was panthera leo atrox, therefore the only natural way to keep feral horse populations in check would be to introduce the closest equivalent predator that once roamed here, prides of lions. That would be insane, as insane as demanding that wild horse populations be left alone because they’re “wild and belong here.”

[@kittyday1402]

They break up the families, injure the horses, corral them too closely & then they get sick & die. Like in CO, where over 100 horses died from equine flu.

[@joannepackus5736]

How far are you running these horses for and in what heat. Running those little foals and the fear they must feel. There has to be a better way!

[@wadestanton]

Horses have been bred to be driven for thousands of years. It's not a bunch of Miles City, MT community college rodeo kids flying the helicopters, so relax.

[@caroltenge5147]

they dont consider fear, only consider the money they get out of this sham.

[@marlyjung4102]

not to mention, twin peaks area is covered with volcanic boulders, many get foot injuries.

[@sagunsingh7415]

Yeah, shoot them.

[@aitusk2116]

these horses are going to slaughter so what difference does it make, they are going to die

[@theresasecore9372]

This is disgusting and just so heart breaking - I hope people know and understand not only these horses are robbed of their home and their families get broken up - and being chased by helicopters is tramatic enough but most of them get treated terribly, and have to endure cruel humans - some that don't get sold or display potential to work for humans will get sold as 'meat' for human consumption and b/c US has banned horse meat - they get put on trains to endure horrible 2 to 3,000 mile journey to Mexico - many of them die from injuries and thirst (since they're bound for slaughter, they seldom get water or food - just the bare minimum) - I hope people understand we take their homes for animal agriculture - to make 'meat' for our food from animals (it's the same for chopping down rainforests) - if you love animals, if you have an ounce of compassion in your heatr - please stop being the cog in animal agriculture or testing or sporting (hunting), or skin-trade or illegal wild animal exports, anything that exploits and hurts animals - please be their protectors and champions

[@louismat319]

Wild horses in the wild is a very majestic sight. Definitely a bucket list item.

[@dreamcatcher5502]

THANK YOU CONGRESSWOMAN !!! ❤

[@aquariusmoon771]

Yes! Thank you!

[@galebush1004]

What's with wild horses. Who and what are they bothering? I hope these people who doing this are charged with cruelty to añimals . It's all about money to the government.

[@DoubleDogDare54]

The herds increase at around 20% a year. If these bangtails eat down all the grass and their water sources dry up with the drought conditions in the West, will your sort be willing to let Nature take its course and have these horses die off due to starvation and lack of water? Can't have it both ways. If they need the help of humans to survive, they aren't wild animals and need to be removed from these areas . If they are wild animals, impose a hunting season on them and let starvation and lack of water take care of the rest of the problem, like with any other wild animal.

[@Jaden_357]

So when the government controls the spread of feral pigs (boar), is it still cruelty? Or is it because this non-native species is one people are fond of, that it then becomes a symbol of animal cruelty. Horses do not naturally occur in the American wilderness, they are merely domestic animals set loose who now cause imbalance on an ecosystem not designed for their presence.

[@Lakota828]

@@DoubleDogDare54 No, it's just to make room for cows and sheep. Nature can regulate itself just fine without humans interacting.

[@DoubleDogDare54]

@@Lakota828 Cattle and sheep pay their way. We eat them. Feral horses do not pay their way and are parasites on grazing land leased to ranchers that supply food to this country. Feral horses are not native wild animals like deer and elk. They are stray domestic livestock with no owners other than the BLM. As the BLM owns them, the BLM can do with them as they think best. And they think it is best to round them up, remove them from federal lands and sell them off to whoever wants them. So, this is not a matter of nature regulating itself as it is up to the BLM to call the shots. Deal with it.

[@petethetaper]

those are good animals, bet the Native Americans will make the best of their animals, as always.

[@AmandaFromWisconsin]

🙄

[@Jaden_357]

Who wants to tell this person about how domestic horses originated from Europe…. 😳

[@Shainnelle]

I wish I was around that area because I would release them. Sickening Leave the animal's alone 😠

[@suzanneyoung8011]

So you want to release them all to die of starvation and thirst on ranges that can't support their numbers? That's not very humane.

[@Jaden_357]

You want to release feral animals that will outcompete native species? You have truly contradicted your own beliefs

[@niecylanae33]

I am so tired of certain people playing GOD. Leave the Wild to be wild..

[@jacobbwalters8133]

These are not a native species. We created this mess so we need to fix it. God has tasked us with being good stewards of his creation and letting invasive species we introduced destroy the native ecosystem is not that. This is similar to the wild rabbit infestations of Australia or the wild cat infestations of Hawaii. Fortunately, wild horses are much easier to manage.

[@GregKingston]

They aren't native species.

[@sukn7091]

These are feral animals with no natural predators for population control and are destroying natural resources.

[@j.a.martinez4001]

We can identify and manage the heard growth with animals but why can’t we do this with humans….. there are far way to many people here on this earth…… I think we need to have a cap on how many kids we have……. We are like an infestation, we are so wasteful. Resources, metals, water, vegetation, food etc. horses don’t have that issues, but us humans do.

[@cbr1thou]

Well get your rope and find a tree and help us out here

[@seanthe100]

Just give it time most developed nations are not growing, even china is about to max out in a couple of years the human population is maxing out within the next century and decreasing.

[@edadams3685]

Spot on I have thought this way most of my life human population need to be controlled also

[@Press1for]

As a full blooded Lakota, This can be stated we've seen this before. Trust no wasicu....... 😡😤 just sickening.

[@ronwade2206]

Horses are not ingiginous to this land, originally ridden by Spanish Conquistadores, when allowed to roam free and breed became large herds.

[@Lissa11638]

I wish I could "unsee" what I just saw💔❤️‍🔥💔❤️‍🔥💔❤️‍🔥💔❤️‍🔥💔❤️‍🔥

[@omarm8635]

That lady has clearly never been by a wild horse talking about inhumane lol

[@aldebaranredstar]

Just bring wolves back-they will reduce the herd. No need to do the roundups.

[@sacramentofoodforest]

The fact that people are complaining is mind blowing to me

[@charmcshane3517]

Why hasn't anyone come up with birth control kibble? Horse, bear, Buffalo, deer....... ( put piles of it everywhere, for the specific animal)

[@DoubleDogDare54]

What is needed is a hunting season for these horses. Have a hunting season instead of rounding them up and penning them on BLM facilities for the rest of their lives. Then no more roundups. The horses can live their wild, untamed lives until a hunter with a rifle and scope harvests those horses and fills his freezer with a half ton of organic caballo. The state issues the tags and gets money out of it instead of spending money on the roundups and feeding these bangtails after they are caught. Designate the month of October for horse hunting. The foals are done with the mares by then and hunters can harvest whatever they can get in the crosshairs.

[@anitakristensen4679]

@@DoubleDogDare54 look out you are going to get bomb barded with comments about your comment.

[@dawnwitt8583]

@@DoubleDogDare54 Sadly at least 50 wild horses were shot to death, left to die or were injured in Arizona's Apache Sitgreaves National Forest in October. The killers didn't make sure they were dead, they didn't get a ticket from the state to approve of the killings or even take them out of the park. They left fractured horse familes and dead horses for any member of the public to find.

[@dawnwitt8583]

There is a proven birth control that the BLM basically refuses to use to a large degree. It's an injection that is shot into mares. It's much less cost than roundups and allows horses to stay on the range with their herds.

[@thelonecrusader220]

More humane method and environmentally friendly approach: Employ the cowboys! But the downside? It's bad for business, bad for the economy because you don't spend on gas fuels and don't sign up with helicopter contractors which means...no kickbacks for politicians...hehehe...just saying.

[@christinekristin7845]

Leave the horses alone let them all run free they want to live to shame shame shame on our government

[@Jaden_357]

No, “shame shame shame” on you for not understanding the damaging ecological impact feral horses have on the landscape.

[@deanna5612]

Is anyone else sick and tired of the government!

[@yvonneplant9434]

No, Deanna. I like having medicare and and social security.

[@GardeninGrace]

They make money off sending them to slaughterhouses to make meat and animal feed. Same with sending them to auction houses.

[@teresaoar8360]

It’s all about the water and grazing. The wild horses don’t pay taxes. Cattle ranches do.

[@marlyjung4102]

not if the international corporations country of registration is not in the US. eg: sp+ US made $5billion in revenue and only paid 14Million in fed. taxes for us based managers. than add all the tax payer subsidies those ranchers get, nope does not add up to the cost of removing wildlife.

[@yogatron3290]

It's Political at the end of the day, The protection of these Animals are not priority....this is an atrocity!!!🙏🐎

[@DoubleDogDare54]

They are just feral domestic livestock. Why would they be protected by the government when they aren't supposed to be running loose to start with?

[@Lakota828]

@Sky Mile Many wild animals are political: probably the most divisive are wolves.

[@katnip6289]

They don't need to round up so many horse!!! Just who's going to adopt these horses? Get the livestock off the land!

[@laurabrawner9072]

Wrong, wrong, wrong!!! 😡😡😡

[@MonsterMacLLC]

They are kept in deplorable conditions and a significant amount have died from lack of vaccinations WHILE IN their facilities. If they are endangered, the management practices should NOT be a cause of death or injury, period.

[@adamfrbs9259]

Spent almost half a billion dollars in 5 years...wtf??? To "manage" by human intervention what horses have been doing on their own for thousands of years...survive.

[@ozone2639]

If we hadn’t killed off all the wolves and predators we wouldn’t be having to intervene with nature.

[@shaere1]

He's lying! The helicopter is terrorizing and they don't want to sit on a horse to round up those horses. They're so terrorized the horses and babies have heart attacks.

[@kristenkaz3080]

So basically the truth is that the horses are being rounded up to benefit the land for the beef cattle farmer. Nice. A balance cannot be found? Such as gelding male horses & then releasing them back?

[@kathyhallock2528]

They talked about using helicopters and motorized vehicles, the problem is according to Annie's law and the federal government THIS IS AGAINST THE LAW! #ANNIE'S LAW

[@andrewstraub131]

They are not game animals and as invasive species they aren’t subject to any protections

[@tlc6365]

What are they really going to do to Father God's creation? I hope they do not slaughter them !

[@jacobbwalters8133]

The horses are not slaughtered- it explains the adoption process in the video. It’s also worth noting that horses are not native to this particular part of God’s creation, but rather were introduced by the Spanish in the 1500’s. We manage their populations today to prevent overgrazing and soil degradation.

[@DoubleDogDare54]

They are domestic horses. If you take these horses, break them to saddle, they are simply any other horse, just like all the other horses in Father God's creation. They are nothing special or out of the ordinary. Get over it.

[@elisawilliams9319]

I loved the idea of letting cowboys round them up. What’s the rush of rushing to round up these beautiful animals. If they allow people to live on the land to take care of the horses, then there would be no need for adoptions. With all of those millions of dollars they could pay cowboys well enough to save the horses and manage the land. I say there’s an underbelly to this and they want that land to build stuff we don’t need so they can make even more money than they do now. Greed always plays a part in an innocent scenario like this. We see you.

[@ZorroFox-do9oe]

No its not a good idea most of the horses are going to the slaughter houses just like cows that is one of the things the government is trying to cover up

[@juliefisher5377]

Hey YELLOWSTONE need some horses?

[@christinewelford1842]

Its so sick and sad. A free and wild animal being taken and treaded like property. They are not free if we are controlling them

[@markdoty1213]

Unfortunately if you let them over populate they will destroy the range there on and then all those animal's will will starfe to death,and that's a horrible way to die. You need to remember there's no natural predators to keep the hearts down.

[@kimbok5971]

Animal welfare has advanced very little in the last 150 years. So horrible for these horses.

[@timbeatty11]

I use to live in NV around a lot of those horses. You cant see them at night when driving on roads at high speed. But the horses feed the mountian lions. So that saves the cattle

[@mikeprice4103]

That sure doesn't seem to be working.

[@skylercook1812]

​@@mikeprice4103 then why we do have more big cats and species of big cats in the us then we did 30 years ago?

[@mikeprice4103]

@@skylercook1812 Cant hunt with dogs anymore so most of us gave up hunting cats.

[@9liveslisa]

Yep. Hire cowboys!

[@BeBeBraveSpirit]

That’s a horrible way to control resources. Killing 20k wild horses and burros are disgusting especially when this was their land. People need to stop using excess water like in swimming pools and having outrageous landscaping requiring lots of water. Everyone on the internet can look up ways to do their own part in preserving resources. Horses are majestic and they want and deserve their freedom. Surely, humans can understand that. The stress put on those horses being wrangled up and corralled is terrifying to them. Humans are going to cause every animal on Earth to be killed because they are greedy and selfish.

[@intheshell35ify]

Looks at wide open spaces with a couple of bushes and 6 blades of grass and can't understand why it's overpopulated cause there is so much room.

[@andrewstraub131]

The fact that people get upset about this is infuriating because you think they are cute well horses are non native and die terrible deaths on the range nobody cares when we do this with pigs but horses are sacred …no they are free meat

[@lindaslack6871]

LEAVE THEM ALONE!

[@kathyhallock2528]

I've been doing this research along with others for years!

[@kathleneda2514]

I like the idea of cowboys preferably women. I do recall a movie of a young woman who did the corralling of the horses in the seventies or eighties. What percent for inoculations of strangles? And why did the shots get overlooked this spring? Why no shots?

[@MMSGEE]

The major issue which they just glanced over in this video is the reason why they’re rounding up the horses is because the government is leasing out the land that the horses were living on to cattle farmers. If the horses were still given the public land they always had we would not need to be rounding them up to keep them in holding for the rest of their lives, and the holding facilities are not pretty they’re thousands of horses in pens with little to know grass.

[@johnnymcblaze]

Lol, the federal government litterally killed off the few native horses that survived the ice age, so they could claim them all as invasive. Some tribes were very outspoken about this, and they are all gone now.

[@thelastvalkyrie1998]

We originally had 86,000 free roaming wild horses and burros. 4,000 left? That is going to lead to immense inbreeding and low gene pools, and practically no symbol of freedom left. This drastic change summarizes how the government values the freedom of both animal and man. The Bureau of Land Management is going to take in far more horses than it knows what to do with and simultaneously violating the 1971 Wild Horses and Burros Act. Somehow we have children skipping meals and yet we have more than enough taxpayers dollars to export many of these horses to Mexico, where they will be turned into dog food. The hypocrisy is truly blood boiling.

[@Jaden_357]

What’s really blood boiling is the fact that you’re worried about a population of non-native animals that cause harm to an ecosystem instead of funneling your anger and passion towards native species who are truly threatened such as the bison or wolf. Maybe if people like you stopped worrying about protecting something that is harmful, then we could spend our time protecting species that actually need our help, instead of a freaking farm animal.

[@Maybe1Someday]

Too many horses means no new trees. No more trees means no more people. "private" cattle grazing on public land needs to stop or I want my percentage.

[@blairbrown4812]

I wonder how many horses are in Mongolia....

[@alphaomega5909]

Approx 3 MILLION. They outnumber the humans. But are used for milk, transportation AND FOOD. Horses there are a MEAT animal like cattle is here.

[@britwhit5171]

Leave the damn horses alone!! Whose next? The wild buffalos? 😠

[@kikisylvester7195]

To behold something so beautiful, pure, and so free be chased and corraled by metal flying loud monsters is distressing and so sad to watch! Imagine the fear these horses and burros experience. Imagine the desparation of the parents of foals and the nightmare those foals expirienced. The fact that they were free and now they're not is pitiful! This all made me sick and sad. Hire cowboys to round them up humanely at the very least. No animal should die or be injured because people are "trying to HELP"! ...People won't stop until the entire world is DEAD!

[@stevematthey4557]

This is what the government said about the Indians to

[@valerienady3499]

This is ridiculous! The law says to leave them wild!😆

[@allisonlew4508]

Why are they using these terrible methods & not using birth control w/the horses?

[@williamroland8924]

To much money to be made by not doing this.

[@paulabears7882]

This is a case of as species being abused and killed so a few people or businesses benefit off PUBLIC PROPERTY, mine and yours

[@AuthenticMage]

Greed is all it is. Leave the horses alone!!!!

[@richpaydirt]

People need to drop their touch-feely emotions and see these animals for what they are; invasive species.

[@justmejenny7986]

Horses are native to North America. So therefore not an invasive species. We are the invasive species.

[@Jaden_357]

Horses were gone from America for thousands of years before European colonization, and those now extinct species were not genetically or functionally the same as domestic horses. Also humans are not an invasive species to the Americas, Native American people were able to live alongside native wildlife for thousands of years but the European colonial way of life destroyed America’s landscape.

[@tishw4576]

This is a very long standing problem between cattle ranchers and the wild horses. Do you eat steak, burgers? Any beef products? Cattle need large quantities of land to feed. Horses require just as much of not more. They are competing for limited resources, especially with the severe drought the West is experiencing.

[@tdp73]

These horses are on BLM land, not cattle ranchers land.

[@gamingtonight1526]

We should be like many Europeans and eat horse meat.

[@kittyday1402]

@@tdp73 Cattle ranchers are the reason this is happening.

[@tdp73]

@@kittyday1402 my point. They shouldn't be able to let their cattle graze on BLM land. So it is the cattle ranchers and the BLM allows them use the land set aside for wild animals. They started rounding up wild mustangs in Nevada in the 70s. It is wrong, just wrong.

[@kittyday1402]

@@tdp73 Yep! I think we should be able to shoot & eat the cattle on Federal land. Last time I checked, they paid $1/acre for grazing rights.

[@elizabethgregory6364]

This needs to be stopped ✋️ 😪 🤧

[@joannebeauchamp1169]

China, Poland, Germany, Indonesia, Switzerland, Japan, Mexico along with other countries LOVE EATING horse meat. True! There have been stories in the past of so-called private individuals buying these beautiful, wild animals from the US Government, only to sell them, & have them end up, sadly, on some foreigner’s dinner table. Unacceptable! The US Government has a MORAL obligation to do a BETTER job of TRACKING these horses once they are SOLD! PERIOD!!!

[@scottowensbyable]

Great idea. Send them to Japan.

[@alphaomega5909]

And in South America Guinea Pigs aren't pets. They're a meat animal for locals like chickens. I get your emotional attachment to horses. But across the world people EAT MEAT. Different kinds of meat. Whatever easily available.

[@mayito9100]

America! It can be inspiring and beautiful. It can also be dark and ugly. It’s soo many things, but it’s ours. It’s our America.

[@seviregis7441]

I hope they’re going to take proper care of these magnificent animals. Please don’t harm them. Thank God for that congresswoman, this method has to change.

[@Inertia888]

I just wish she had done some research on exactly what it takes. She could have told us how many cowboys, how many days it takes, how hard is it exactly for a group of humans on horseback, to do the same job as one helicopter? How many wild horses are injured by helicopter, vs how many are injured by horseback wrangling? How many people are injured when it is done by horseback? She left me with a lot of questions.

[@alfonsomunoz4424]

Let's be honest here...they are the definition of an invasive species. Like carp and kudzu and pythons.

[@kathyhallock2528]

Look at that video look how good that grass for land looks. Now find video of where cattle have been grazing.

[@aquariusmoon771]

Horrific and CRUEL!!! It's assured death for the foals.

[@sierravista9013]

Leave the horses all alone

[@qbconnect2883]

82000 horses is a lot of horses. I can see why culling may be best for them. In comparison, deer' life span are around 4.5yrs, while a wild horse's is 15yrs. That means they reproduce at rates that aren't balanced by natural deaths within the species. That eventually leads to interbreeding, disease and starvation, especially with the increase in climate change and wild fires. I think it's really the humane thing to do.

[@marlyjung4102]

If there was 82k, is a drop in the bucket compared to the millions of deer. And the 20% they say is their high potential spreadsheet growth number and has never been proven. The Ac. of Sciences did a thorough research and found the average closer to 5% growth, because horses self regulate. There are a few herds that have proven self reg. meaning if there is few resources they have fewer foals, abundant resources than more. 82k is how many they already have taken through the years to hold in a holding pen.

[@qbconnect2883]

@@marlyjung4102 Thanks for explaining 👍🏾

[@CarShopping101]

This has nothing to do with humane treatment of horses. It's all for cattle ranchers who have practically free grazing rights on millions of acres of government land

[@suzanneyoung8011]

Sorry but that Democrat congresswoman doesn't understand what she's talking about. Using helicopters is the quickest and most humane way to round up the mustangs. I watched a video on the Mustang Makeover Germany KZbin channel where a group of German horse trainers went to Oregon and visited with the BLM and went out on the range with them. They had the same questions about the helicopter, and the BLM staff explained to them that the terrain there isn't safe for horse and riders to ride on to roundup the mustangs. The wild horses are used to it, but It would take too many people mounted on horseback to do in a day what a helicopter can do in a short amount of time, and the risk of injuries to people and their horses is too great. The BLM works with this German organization who adopts the mustangs and gentles them just enough to make them safe for transport by air, and then they are assigned to various horse trainers to train them in 100 days and then compete with the fully trained mustang in their makeover contest, which is always sold out every summer. Afterwards, people then pay a huge amount of money to give these beautiful mustangs a forever home. You can watch their progress on their channel. It's a beautiful thing to see. The Germans love and admire the American Mustang more than many Americans do.

[@christophermillett2273]

This country sucks!! These animals were born free and need to be left alone. Corral the government!!

[@Greenisthebestcolor]

Over grazing from wild burros and horses is a real problem. They are not native and they eat all the food that the native deer, elk, antelope, and bighorn sheep need. The burros actually try to scare away native species from watering holes. Managing herd size is essential, otherwise there is not enough food and animals starve…which is not exactly humane

[@donnacsuti4980]

Disgusting animals abuse for no good reason .should be so ashamed

[@rudyb1652]

While your at it corral all the homeless up and put them in holding pens.

[@jay_blade2819]

Leave the horses alone

[@MrPrentissDJones]

What would be the natural predator for this horse? Where are they?

[@dylancyprian843]

Not sure why the stories of the horses starving and dying of thirst aren’t making the mainstream media? Every year horses starve and drought out due to miss management by Blm

[@Van-Leo]

one thing we need to understand is that horses are not native to the americas, they are originally an asian and european animal. they were brought to the americas during colonization. if there are too many they will then eat everything up that the natural population was expected to eat. though after 300 years of this, its not as impactful as the colonizers were. corralling the horses is fine considering all the conservation efforts we have put in place.