BLM Awards $740,000.00 U.S. Tax Dollars to Wild Horse Stampede Contractor
“Last week ‘The Hill‘ reported that the BLM cited overpopulation and drought to be the reason they gave away 3/4 of a million tax dollars to the Cattoors, again, to terrorize and stampede federally protected wild horses off from their legal and rightful land. Ain’t it great?” ~ R.T.
The Bureau of Land Management (BLM) awarded four contracts worth a total of more than $740,000 for wild “horse gathering” services in the western United States. The Department of Interior captures horses to control the populations in the wild. Some are taken and placed up for adoption, while others are given fertility-control drugs and released. The BLM has contracted with Cattoor Livestock Roundup to remove hundreds of horses from the land. In the four areas — primarily in Nevada — where the roundups will occur, BLM cites drought and horse overpopulation. The agency is running into complications, including a lawsuit and petitions. Cattoor has been working with federal agencies since 1975, according to its website.
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It is a shame that our tax dollars are going towards eliminating the wild horses and burros from public lands so that gas fracking and oil drilling and mining and cattle ranching can take over our public lands that have been designated as land for wild horses and burros to live free with their families.
The helicopter roundups will end their freedom and put more in the holding pens that already hold 50,000 horses.
