>>332580Because feral horses are an invasive species that shit up public land but they're also incredibly romanticized. You can even see it in the language used in the article. The horses on public land are feral (just like stray cats and dogs, pigs in the south, etc.) and not wild, and The BLM is not in charge of "protecting wild horses", they're in charge of MANAGING feral horse populations, and that includes removal and culling. The same people who will scream until they're blue in the face about the shitty practices and land management of cattle ranching and who want to get rid of every other invasive species will also scream until they're blue in the face about how the precious wild horsies need to be protected.
This also isn't anything new. The federal government has been capturing, selling and culling them for 55 years now.
