Video from Shannon’s friend: https://youtu.be/OSE3DlQhz5g
BLM on Today: https://youtu.be/VQvNFE95RhY
Today, there are more wild horses being “held” in facilities than currently in the wild. Since the 19th century, the number of wild horses free in the West have declined by 98%. The practices of removing American horses off public lands is decimating their numbers. Thousands of wild horses every year are being herded by helicopters and vehicles into holding pens. The ones who survive being separated from their families, greatly weakened from exhaustion, or substandard veterinary care and handler abuse are stockpiled until they’re sold at auction or die -- never to run wild again.
The Bureau of Land Management (BLM) which manages the once healthy and thriving wild horse and burro population in the western United States has in a sense led these animals to slaughter. According to the BLM’s most recent (2014) population estimate, there are only 8,394 burros remaining in the entire West!
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The limitation to private property was a condition of the Bureau of Land Management. As large parts of Nevada were thereby excluded from the bill, Johnston continued to fight for a better protection of the mustangs.
On 8 September 1959 the campaign resulted in the federal legislature passing Public Law 86-234 which banned air and land vehicles from hunting and capturing wild horses on state land. This became known as the Wild Horse Annie Act.
Johnston continued her campaign and in 1971, the 92nd United States Congress unanimously passed the Wild and Free-Roaming Horses and Burros Act of 1971. It was signed into law by the then President Richard Nixon on December 15, 1971. This act prohibited capture, injury, or disturbance of wild horses and burros and for their transfer to suitable areas when populations became too