Tuesday, June 20, 2017
Interior Department Wants to Bury Its Wild Horse Mistakes: question Sec. Zinke's alt-facts tomorrow
Dear Legislator,
Don't be hoodwinked when Department of Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke comes to Capitol Hill, tomorrow.
For decades, the Department of Interior has taken America's wild horses off public lands to "restore the range." Know why that doesn't work? Wild horses aren't to blame, but Secretary Zinke may neglect to mention the impacts of livestock and extractive industries on the environment.
Budget
2018
calls for killing all wild horses and burros in Bureau of Land
Management holding pens. That's about 44,000 equines according to BLM,
and the roundups continue, this month. BLM records show more mustangs "gathered" in the
first three months of 2017
than were captured in all of 2016.
Few voters want wild horses killed, but they’re bombarded by myths
which infer there's no choice.
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