Jonathan Thompson aptly calls out Bureau of Land Management Acting Director William Perry Pendley’s big lie about the “existential threat” to public lands (“BLM chief ’s wild horse fixation,” 11/25/19). Sadly, Thompson goes on to refer to the estimated 88,000 wild horses on public lands, stating that their “hooves trample and lay waste to big swaths of […]
Charlotte Roe
Posted inApril 15, 2019: Scene of the Crime
Don’t scapegoat the horses
Debbie Weingarten’s cover piece depicts the conflict over the Salt River wild horses and the mythology of wild horses as symbols of an unbridled West (HCN, 3/18/19). But in venturing further afield, the article echoes destructive myths about America’s free-roaming wild equines. Overpopulation is not “a real problem.” The Bureau of Land Management and the […]