Wild Horse Roundup

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/34578945/ns/us_news-life/

This first article is really good on talking about both sides. The side that's against it brings up good points about weather its right or not to use helicopters to round up horses and weather its humane considering many could be injured or killed during the process. It also talks about us not having enough money to euthanize the horses or place them in long term corals so we would be in a tight spot once we moved them. For the side that's for it they make great points that the horses are overpopulating and making it hard on the rest of the wild life that live around them. They also mention that it will be much easier on the horses them selves because there will be more food and land space for them.

http://www.kolotv.com/home/headlines/80570272.html

This article makes some good points that so far we have no studies that have proven that the wild horses are skinny, malnourished or that the land is being eaten away. They also feel that a few horses might be OK to take but 2,500 is way to much to be taking away.They explain the process better about how these horses are being captured, which is a helicopter that chases them into a pin of some sort and a trained horse that follows. It mentions that many horses are injured and one was just reported trying to escape and was caught in barb wire.

http://www.usatoday.com/news/nation/2010-07-22-wild-horses_N.htm

After reading this article I learned that many deaths occurred because they did some of the round up during the hottest months of the year instead of doing them during the spring or fall so many horses died of dehydration. They had horses running in 100 degree weather and hotter without being able to get water. The BLM says that there is a drought and to many horses so will die of dehydration but they predicted the drought and march and could have done something sooner before it got so hot. Animal rights activist say that they just want to use the land for cattle grazing and energy. The BLM is making it very hard to see the method on the horses being rounded up because they say rounding up wild horses isn't pretty but animal activist say they feel more people would be against if they saw it happening and all the horses that were being injured or killed.

http://www.8newsnow.com/story/5699743/controversial-wild-horse-roundup-in-cold-creek-nevada?redirected=true

This article really interested me since it talked about a specific place which is Cold Creek and how the residents there feel about it. Many people said they moved to that area because of the wild horses and coming from people who visit and observe these horses think they look fine. They think the government is exaggerating about dehydration because they feel there is plenty of water around there for the horses. The BLM came to talk to the residents but never gave them a chance to speak just said they could put their comments in writing. Also it talks about the lack of money the government has for all these adoptions they talk about and how there was only 8 adoptions in the past year.