Wild horses -- can't drag them away

There are too many wild horses on Western public lands, even though the Bureau of Land Management has sent 45,000 to retirement ranches, for which you and I and other taxpayers shelled out $74.9 million in 2012.

That’s what I said – almost $75 million for horses too old or too tired or too out of shape to do whatever wild horses do before retirement.

Used to be wild horses were known to mountain lions and bears and wolves as “food,” but these days such a natural thing is cruel.

A paper “written by Robert A. Garrott of Montana State University and Madan K. Oli of the University of Florida, calculates that if current trends continue, BLM would have to spend some $1.1 billion over the next 17 years just to keep storing horses in these long-term facilities …” (There’s a chart.)

http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/wonkblog/wp/2013/08/26/the-west-is-on-the-brink-of-a-wild-horse-apocalypse-no-really/?hpid=z4

(Australia has 400,000 wild horses, and the government there is considering shooting the excess, the story says.)

At www.fark.com

(I looked up the lyrics to the Rolling Stones Wild Horses to see if I could use anything. First time I ever understood the words. That song sucks. Big time.)