Abstract
The Wild Free-Roaming Horses and Burros Act is overdue for repeal or revision. The Wild Horse and Burro Program is expensive for taxpayers, detrimental to rangelands, and harmful to the thousands of free-roaming equines it is intended to benefit. For nearly half a century, the Bureau of Land Management and United States Forest Service have struggled to balance the mandates of the Wild Free-Roaming Horses and Burros Act amidst a political and social climate that makes compliance impossible. Forty-six years after the Act was passed, the agencies are further from arriving at a solution than they have ever been. The time to change is now, and this article proposes solutions.
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Recommended Citation
C.J. Michaels,
Three Alternatives for Managing Free-Roaming Horses and Burros: A Legal Reform,
58
Nat. Res. J.
365
(2018).
Available at:
https://digitalrepository.unm.edu/nrj/vol58/iss2/15
