Anti feral horse organizations

Don't even get me started on feral horses. I'd rather they are not around at all, but if they have to be, manage them as a game species, sell tags for 50 bucks and set a quota/season. There are plenty of rednecks like me who'd be more than willing to go shoot one and take it home for supper.

Instead they waste millions of dollars rounding them up, castrating them, training them, feeding them (for years), and then they can't even give them away. Idk if it's still going on but a couple of years ago they were paying guys (if I remember right) $10,000 to take them. There were a lot of stipulations on that, but still.

Not to mention the devastation they cause to the landscape.

Ok, I'm done.
 
Any rancher that thinks that there will be more cow if horses are removed is kidding themselves. However if horses are removed or even numbers brought under control, the rancher will benefit because their cows will do better.

My solution, Issue the horse advocates grazing permits. The BLM range specialists get to determine the appropriate number and it is the horse advocates responsibility to keep the numbers within the permit. Failure to do so and the horses are treated just like someone with cows would be. The federal government should not be in the wildlife business, that is the states job. Nor should the government be in the livestock business.
AMLs (Appropriate Management Levels) are already established as part of the wild horse and burro act. If the population were kept at this level most of the problem would go away. I’d love it if the horse advocates were responsible for keeping the herds at these levels and actually did that but it’ll never happen.

As far as states managing feral horses, that’s already being done and done poorly. A herd that’s classified as “feral”, such as the 4,000+ horses around Reno known as the Virginia Range herd, are managed by the state department of agriculture. That’s working out even worse for the range land than the “wild” horses the BLM is responsible for managing.
 

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What's the fine like for shooting one?

Federally protected so probably pretty high if you get caught. What are the odds a guy would get caught though is the question that needs to be asked


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