Protect Legal Wyoming Horse Forms For Free

§1331. It is the policy of Congress that wild free-roaming horses and burros shall be protected from capture, branding, harassment, or death; and to accomplish this they are to be considered in the area where presently found, as an integral part of the natural system of the public lands.

Records show that some people who are paid $1,000 a head by the government to give legally protected mustangs ?good homes? are sending the horses to auction once they get the money.

The BLM is tasked with managing wild horses and burros on our nation's public lands by the Wild Free-Roaming Horses and Burros Act of 1971, which states that these animals ?shall be protected from capture, branding, harassment, or death? (16 U.S. Code § 1331).

Starting this month, the bureau is trying to make wild mustang adoptions more attractive by paying $1,000 to those who take in the animals, which are gathered up from public land in the western United States as part of efforts to manage the population.

Broadly, the law declares wild horses and burros to be "living symbols of the historic and pioneer spirit of the West" and stipulates that the BLM and the U.S. Forest Service have the responsibility to manage and protect herds in their respective jurisdictions within areas where wild horses and burros were found ...

As of February 2023, the BLM is caring for more than 22,000 wild horses and burros in its off-range corrals awaiting adoption, and an additional 40,000 unadopted animals are being provided long-term care on private pastures. Last year, it cost the BLM nearly $83.5 million to care for unadopted and unsold animals.