A bill being considered before the US Senate will restrict the authority of local agencies dealing with wild horses, and give a foothold to lawsuits, says Ron Kay with the Idaho State Department of Agriculture to the interim Natural Resources committee in late July.
The Restoration of the American Mustang Act aims to restore acreage available for wild and free-roaming horses and burros to at least that of 1971. Kay notes that wild horse populations double every four years. A federal wild horse adoption program returns any unadopted horses back to the rangeland – effectively postponing the problem. Among the tongue-in-cheek suggestions by committee members for dealing with expanding horse populations: opening up the National Mall in Washington DC as wild horse rangeland, or intermingling expanding horse and wolf populations.
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