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Article: No longer home on the open range. (Bureau of Land Management's wild horse protection program; includes related article on the California Correctional Center in Susanville where convicts break and train wild horses)
- Article from:
- U.S. News & World Report
- Article date:
- June 13, 1988
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ENVIRONMENT Free it, corral it or eat it, just what's to be done with the mustang?
In public affection and by congressional fiat, America's wild horses-once slaughtered by the tens of thousands for chicken feed, pet food and hides-are today protected as the nation's "living symbols of the historic and pioneer West." Yet, despite the sentiment, new legal safeguards and considerable financial expense, mustangs continue to suffer abuse and exploitation, even as wards of the Interior Department's Bureau of Land Management. The BLM is caught beneath the hooves of a dilemma: What to do with too many of the fecund animals, whose herds can expand by as much as 15 ...
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