The Food Chain4 Aug 2024

Ep.1366: Wild Horses? Let Em Run!

Lacy J Dalton, President, Let Em Run Foundation & Internationally acclaimed Country and Western Music Recording Star

(Wild Horse Management, Policies and Procedures)

83,000 horses and burros roam wild and free throughout the empty spaces of the great American West. Though some very serious voices say they should not be allowed to run free, other serious voices say, “Let em run!” And so we ask:

Should we let wild horses run free?

Out here in the great American West, there is still a lot of wide open spaces. But as Aristotle once said, “Nature abhors a vacuum,” and so did the horses and burros that moved right in to those wide open spaces.

Horses and burros were brought to the West by Spanish Conquistadors, from which they made their escape into the void, where they became wild and free.

Over the course of time, the animals that preyed on wild horses and domestic livestock were, for the most, wiped out, leaving the horses to roam freer than ever before.

Today an estimated 83,000 wild horses and burros roam free in what’s left of wide open spaces of the American West. But they are not really free. In 1971 Congress passed the Wild Free-Roaming Horses and Burros Act, and now the wild and free are wards of the state.

The Bureau of Land Management is required by this law to manage wild horse and burro populations so as to maintain a healthy balance with the environment. It is in the management of these populations of wild horses and burros that we find our story.

And who better to tell that story, then Country Western Music recording star, Lacy J Dalton

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