KUER Local News
(2008-07-08)
LARAMIE, WY
(wpr) -
Bureau of Land Management officials in Wyoming are struggling with a steep decline in Wild Horse adoptions.
As the BLM considers a policy of euthanizing wild horses to deal with a nationwide overpopulation, Wyoming is facing a 70 percent decline in wild horse adoptions this year.
Alan Shepherd heads the BLM's state program for wild horses and burros. He says most people just can't afford to keep a horse right now.
Shepherd says, this fall, Wyoming will have about four hundred wild horses too many for the landscape to support.
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