In his essay on wild horses, Williams offers no
facts. Instead, he merely quotes harried former BLM employees and a
New York Times article to buttress his specious arguments.
Moreover, speaking from his presumably well-informed New
England Audubon landscape, known perhaps somewhere for the wild
horses of which he blithely opines, the kernel of his argument is
his repeatedly taking issue with the well-intentioned, albeit
erroneous, declarations from wild horse advocates that
“horses are native to North America.” Inasmuch as there
are few things truly native — including ourselves — to
this continent, I struggle to find the point of his polemic. Pray
tell, the wild horses are now here and have been here for hundreds
of years. The fact that they may, or may not, have primordial
antecedents matters how?
Mauricio R.
Hernandez
Gardnerville,
Nevada
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