In 2021, it cost $78 million in federal taxpayer money to care for nearly 60,000 wild horses and burros that were rounded up out of the wild and moved into holding facilities run by the Bureau of Land Management.
Some horse advocates say that’s a waste of taxpayer dollars, but the BLM says it’s a necessary expense.
Harry Haythorn runs the off-range pasture in Maxwell, located about a four-hour drive northeast of Denver, just across the border of the Mountain and Central time zones. He says he takes great pride and joy in caring for the horses.When the BLM rounds up horses out of the wild, they are sent to short-term holding facilities, like the one inFrom there, many horses are adopted, but those that aren’t are sent to long-term holdings, like Haythorn’s ranch.
“The excessive use of tax dollars here is deeply concerning, there is clearly a far more cost-effective way of managing these horses,” said Scott Wilson, a wildlife photographer and board member for the American Wild Horse Campaign.“The wild horses have no voice, that’s why we have to speak up for and defend their right to live free and eat free on those lands,” Wilson said.
“There are 30 times the number of cattle and sheep on these lands set aside for the protection of our horses than there are horses,” Wilson said. “The population of livestock needs to be reduced on these public lands in order to sustain and conserve the horse populations for the future.”“The Bureau of Land Management’s Wild Horse and Burro Program is a financial boondoggle,” said Scott Beckstead with the Center for a Humane Economy.
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