wild+mustangs

Wild Mustangs
J. Ginsburg(10-26-01) National Geographic Today 1971 [] ...100 years ago mustangs were estimated 2 million wild mustangs ran free. Now there are only about 50,000 mustangs. It reduced to 27,000 in 2007. The BLM is responsible for not maintaining the wild mustangs because they are in charge of the health and the land. Since 1971 nearly 159,000 horses were taken by the BLM and a quarter of them found home. We are losing a great number of this species. It went from 3,000-4,000. Now it is reaching to 8,000-10,000. 75% of the 209 herds managed by the BLM in the west have lost about 150 horses in each heard. (N.A.) (N.D.) National Mustang Association 2002 [] ...This article talks about how there were many wild mustangs a couple years ago and now we are losing them in numbers. The wild mustangs had millions of achers of land but, now they only have 5000 achers. This picture shows that they are taking the horses off their land. The other picture is showing that they are being shot, poisoned them or they would die from thirst or starvation. The BLM had to make sure they maintain the land on which the wild mustangs are on. They keep dieing because the BLM will not let them on the wild mustangs land. L. Mapes. 1/3/09 Seattletimes 2009 __[]__ ...People are taking wild mustangs to slaughter houses. People think it is OK to take wild mustangs to slaughter houses. People are blaming the wild horses for running free because they are running through people's crops. People who study the horses are meeting from 5 different tribes. They are trying to figure out more stuff about these animals. B. Hendricks International Encyclopedia of Horse Breeds 1995 [] ...Wild horses were forced to move west towards the Mississippi River. Eventually people had to move them across the Mississippi River and into where the other herds lived. Since they moved them more west there were more wild horses in one area. The arid land of the west could not support all of the wild horses. On some of the farm lands there was a policy where you could shoot the wild horses. At the beginning of the twentieth century there were about 2 million wild horses. By 1926 there were only 30,000 wild horses. The government put up an act where the wild horses were protected. Once they were protected the numbers in wild horses quickly went up in numbers.