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| DOC Helps with Growing Wild Horse Population |
| By ijpr.org- Tom Banse |
| Published: 10/31/2014 |
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Growing populations of wild horses in the inland Northwest are creating headaches for federal land managers. Wild and feral horse herds overrun tribal lands in our region too. Tribal range managers have one option that federal agencies don't, which is to send unwanted horses to foreign slaughterhouses. That's helping several Northwest tribes make headway to reduce populations of free-roaming horses, but not without creating some dismay. Jason Smith, the range manager for the Confederated Tribes of Warm Springs, offered me a ride in his pickup truck to look for wild horses. It took just a few minutes to find the first group. Then another pair. And even more around the next bend -- chestnuts, bays, Appaloosas and pintos. Read More. |
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