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Good article. Alot of those comments, though... Yikes 😬😬
Typical comments on feral horses. Half or more of these people have no clue what they are talking about. The gather was off tribal land, so no application of Wild Horse & Burro Act and no involvement with BLM. Some horses were probably privately owned and claimed. The rest sorted and most sent to slaughter in Canada or Mexico. Good riddance of a bunch of junk horses. The tribes are turning buffalo loose now -- not sure how that is going to turn out. There are quite a few Indian ranchers who have tribal livestock grazing permits, so it will be interesting to see how it shakes out.
 
Typical comments on feral horses. Half or more of these people have no clue what they are talking about. The gather was off tribal land, so no application of Wild Horse & Burro Act and no involvement with BLM. Some horses were probably privately owned and claimed. The rest sorted and most sent to slaughter in Canada or Mexico. Good riddance of a bunch of junk horses. The tribes are turning buffalo loose now -- not sure how that is going to turn out. There are quite a few Indian ranchers who have tribal livestock grazing permits, so it will be interesting to see how it shakes out.
I would think they would go to Canada. But I guess it depends on where the plants are.
There’s a sale barn about 70 miles from me that has a lot of Amish around it. They have a horse sale first Monday of every month. A packer buyer from Canada and one from Mexico divide up a lot of the loose horses.
 
Are the wild horses protected in Canada or can you help control the population?
Indians claim them but no one feeds them or worry if they become artillery fodder. Thankfully, we have very few on us.
At one time the Forest Service paid a bounty on them but since they have become “sacred” animals they increase rapidly until a harsh winter thins them out again.
 
A lot of them last spring when we turned out. We see some cattle every day along the roads.

There are lots of cattle coming down out of the mountains here, all by themselves. They learn the ropes in only a couple of years and teach each other. There is still going to be plenty of opportunity to gather those that don't, but all the lower cattle guards and loading corrals have animals standing around waiting to be collected.
 

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