Feral Horses and Burros; When to Say When

By Ammoland Editor Joe Evans

Op-Ed by Ben B. Hollingsworth Jr., President, Boone and Crockett Club

USA -(Ammoland.com)- I was catching up on some news at my local coffee shop the other day. When it was time for a refill of my coffee, the server asked me to say “when” my cup was full enough.

At the time, I was reading about how the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) Advisory Council was recommending new strategies for the reduction in the number of feral horses and burros on federal public land. The same thought occurred to me. It was time to say “when.” It’s time for the BLM to take action and get this problem under control.

As a member of the Boone and Crockett Club, the oldest wildlife conservation organization in North America, I was quite familiar with the feral horse and burro issue. This has been growing and contentious environmental issue for quite some time.

In 2011, the Club published a position statement encouraging a new strategy so that the law we already have in place is followed, which is exactly what the BLM Advisory Council is now proposing.

This issue has been growing because feral horse numbers on …Read the Rest

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