Managing for Extinction

Shortcomings of the Bureau of Land Management's Wild Horse and Burro Program

Today's wild horses and burros are threatened by a government program which is biased against the very animals it is designed to protect. So flawed are the Bureau of Land Management's (BLM) Wild Horse and Burro Program and related public lands management policies that the long-term survival of America's wild horses and burros is in jeopardy, as is the health of the rangeland.

This report describes the history and politics of the controversial and deeply interwoven issues of wild horse and burro management and taxpayer subsidized grazing of privately owned livestock on public lands, and offers a new vision of how to better address these conflicting interests to the long-term benefit of America's wild horses and burros, the lands on which they reside, and the American public.

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