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04/25/2025
Do what you can, when you can. We should be the voice for those who do not have one.
“It's one sentence among tens of thousands encompassing 900 pages, but when it comes to the future of and welfare of the nation's wild horses and burros, it is frightening and to be taken seriously,” writes Bill Finley in Thoroughbred Daily News.
“‘Congress must enact laws permitting the BLM to dispose humanely of these animals.’
“The ‘BLM’ is the Bureau of Land Management and ‘these animals’ are the estimated 73,000 wild horses and burros under BLM control. The sentence appeared in Project 2025.”
It is unclear what direction the new administration will take with regard to oversight of America’s wild horses and burros.
President Trump disavowed Project 2025 as a candidate, but Russell Vought, who helped shape the document as a road map for a possible second Trump term, is now the director of the Office of Management and Budget.
The Project 2025 chapter about the Department of the Interior — including the BLM’s Wild Horse and B***o Management Program — was authored by William Perry Pendley. He served as the acting director of the BLM from July 2019-July 2021 during the first Trump administration.
Given the rapid pace of sweeping changes in Washington, D.C., and the existence of an aggressive proposal penned by the president’s former BLM chief, there is cause for great concern.
“We are taking it very seriously,” Celeste Carlisle, the biology and science program manager for Return to Freedom, is quoted by Finley as saying.
“The way that Project 2025 frames the wild horse issue gives it the desperation. They say they've 'invaded private and permitted public lands,' and 'turned sod into concrete.' These are arguments that can easily be used to justify euthanasia. As if there's no other way. What a tragedy.”
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