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The wild horses of the west are a national treasure and living link to America’s rich his- torical past but one whose future is up for grabs. Of the approximately 63,000 wild hors- es remaining, over half are held in captivity. The Bureau of Land Management is respon- sible for protecting, managing and controlling the wild horses and their habitat. Wild horses have no predators and their herd sizes can double every four years. In order to main- tain “Appropriate Management Levels” the BLM holds gathers or roundups to remove the horses from the wild and offer them for adoption. The BLM currently has more than 36,000 horses in captivity in short term corrals and long term pastures. In 2009, the BLM re- moved 6,300 horses from the wild and in 2010; the BLM plans to remove nearly 13,000 more. A few thousand of the rounded up horses tem- porarily live at the Cañon City Correctional Fa- cility in Cañon City, Colorado. Under the Wild Horse Inmate Program (WHIP) inmates care for, train and ready selected horses for adop- tion by the public. Some say the Wild Horse Inmate Program “takes the wild out of both the man and the mustang.” Often an inmate has one horse that he works with and gets to name. Inmates learn a trade and the respon- sibility of having a job while horses are taught WILD NO MORE The Future of American's Wild Horses Photographs and text by Dana Romanoff Cowboys saddle up their horses that they will use during the wild horse round-up on October 18, 2008 in Maybell, Colorado. www.reportage-bygettyimages.com
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The wild horses of the west are a national treasure and living link to America’s rich his-torical past but one whose future is up for grabs. Of the approximately 63,000 wild hors-es remaining, over half are held in captivity.
The Bureau of Land Management is respon-sible for protecting, managing and controlling the wild horses and their habitat. Wild horses have no predators and their herd sizes can double every four years. In order to main-tain “Appropriate Management Levels” the BLM holds gathers or roundups to remove the horses from the wild and offer them for adoption. The BLM currently has more than 36,000 horses in captivity in short term corrals and long term pastures. In 2009, the BLM re-moved 6,300 horses from the wild and in 2010; the BLM plans to remove nearly 13,000 more.
A few thousand of the rounded up horses tem-porarily live at the Cañon City Correctional Fa-cility in Cañon City, Colorado. Under the Wild Horse Inmate Program (WHIP) inmates care for, train and ready selected horses for adop-tion by the public. Some say the Wild Horse Inmate Program “takes the wild out of both the man and the mustang.” Often an inmate has one horse that he works with and gets to name. Inmates learn a trade and the respon-sibility of having a job while horses are taught
WILD NO MOREThe Future of American's Wild Horses
Photographs and text byDana Romanoff
Cowboys saddle up their horses that they will use during the wild horse round-up on October 18, 2008 in Maybell, Colorado.
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Cowboy Miles McCleary fixes the "jute" which is a burlap fencing that leads the horses into metal corrals during the Sand Wash Basin wild horse gather on October 18, 2008 in Maybell, Colorado. Once the helicopter runs the horses into view, the Judas horse is released to lead it's wild siblings into the corral.
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A group of wild horses fear for their lives while a helicopter leads them into metal corrals during the Sand Wash Basin Herd wild horse gather on October 18, 2008 in Maybell, Colorado.
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A group of wild horses fear for their lives while a helicopter leads them into metal corrals during the Sand Wash Basin Herd wild horse gather on October 18, 2008 in Maybell, Colorado.
A group of wild horses fear for their lives while a helicopter leads them into metal corrals during the Sand Wash Basin Herd wild horse gather on October 18, 2008 in Maybell, Colorado.
to trust humans, and be saddle and bridal trained. Both a bit spooked at first, the tat-tooed and muscled inmate and the scared and wild horse learn to trust each other form a bond.
Due to the economic downturn and ris-ing prices of hay and grain, adoptions are decreasing and costs are increasing. In 2009 holding costs were approximately $29mil-lion, or about 70% of the entire wild horse and burro budget of $40.6 million. In total, the BLM spent more than $50 million on the wild horse and burro program in 2009. In the cur-rent fiscal year, holding costs are expected to exceed $34 million out of a total wild horse
and burro budget of $63.0 million.
The BLM and the Senate Appropriations Committee recognize that the holding and gathering costs have risen beyond sustaina-ble levels. Secretary of the Interior Ken Sala-zar is actively seeking congressional support for a more sustainable national program to manage the horses. Salazar acknowledges that: “the current path of the wild horse and burro program is not sustainable for the animals, the environment, or the taxpayer” In October 2009 Salazar proposed creating a new set of wild horse preserves across the nation. This however does not solve the problem – but just moves the horses around.
Other options on the table are: possible euthonization, opening up the sale and adoption of the animals to slaughterhouses, increased experimental contraceptives.
Activists feel strongly that the horses be left in the wild. They believe the wild horses are being eliminated from public land due to pressure from cattle ranchers receiving subsidies to graze the public land. The BLM has to ensure that the herd is in balance with other public rangeland uses but activists feel they are giving priority to the cattle ranchers. There are 37,000 horses in designated Herd Management Areas yet over 8 million cattle on hundreds of millions of acres of public
lands in western states.
The BLM’s Wild Horse and Burro Program is at a critical cross-roads; charged with the responsibility of managing a healthy herd yet running out of money. This year, the fate of America’s living legends is to be decided.
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A cowboy attempts to sort a group of scared wild mustangs recently rounded up from the Sand Wash Basin Herd Manage-ment Area on October 18, 2008 in Maybell, Colorado.
Wild mustangs recently rounded up from the Sand Wash Basin Herd Management Area wait in corrals on October 18, 2008 in Maybell, Colorado.
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Wild mustangs recently rounded up from the Sand Wash Basin Herd Management Area wait in corrals on October 18, 2008 in Maybell, Colorado.
Wild mustangs recently rounded up from the Sand Wash Basin Herd Management Area wait in corrals on October 18, 2008 in Maybell, Colorado.
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A supervisor watches over inmates participating in the Wild Horse Inmate Program on March 17, 2010 in Cañon City, Colorado.
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LEFT TO RIGHTInmates wait to be transported back to their cells after participating in the Wild Horse Inmate Program on March 17, 2010 at the Cañon City Correctional Complex in Cañon City, Colorado.
Inmate Jefferey Halstead feeds mustangs recently gathered from the wild as part of the Wild Horse and Inmate Program at the Cañon City Correctional Complex on March 17, 2010 in Cañon City, Colorado.
LEFT TO RIGHTInmates check the feet of a horse that was one of the wild mustangs gathered in a round-up by the Bureau of Land Manage-ment and brought to the Cañon City Correctional Complex on March 17, 2010 in Cañon City, Colorado.
Inmates working with the Wild Horse and Inmate Program prepare their horses for a cattle roundup on March 17, 2010 in Cañon City, Colorado. The inmates form relation-ships with the horses they train and get to choose names for them.
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An inmate at Four Mile Correctional Complex begins training on a once-wild horse through the Wild Horse and Inmate Program on November 4, 2009 at the Cañon City Correctional Complex in Cañon City, Colorado.
Supervisor Cody West instructs inmate Jeffery Halstead on how to train a mustang recently gathered from the wild as part of the Wild Horse and Inmate Program at the Cañon City Correctional Complex on November 4, 2009 in Cañon City, Colorado.
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A supervisor watches as inmates ride the wild horses they train on November 7, 2008 at the Wild Horse Inmate Program at the Cañon City Correctional Complex in Cañon City, Colorado.
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LEFT TO RIGHTAn inmate at Four Mile Correctional Complex works with the Wild Horse and Inmate Program on November 4, 2009 at the Cañon City Correctional Complex in Cañon City, Colorado.
An inmates participating in the Wild Horse Inmate Program at Four Mile Correctional Complex shows off his tatoo on November 4, 2009 at the Cañon City Correctional Complex in Cañon City, Colorado. The program is one of the more sought-after work and pay incentive programs offered at the correctional facility. Inmates learn to care for and train horses and other skills that aim to make them more employable once released. It is said the program is meant to take the wild out of both the man and the mustang.
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Inmate Benjamin Terry stands with Sierra, a mustang he trains as part of the Wild Horse and Inmate Program at the Cañon City Correctional Com-plex on March 17, 2010 in Cañon City, Colorado.
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LEFT TO RIGHTVictor Salazar, an inmate at Four Mile Cor-rectional Center, rides a once wild mustang that he is training as part of the Wild Horse Inmate Program on November 7, 2008 at the Cañon City Correctional Complex in Cañon City, Colorado.
Hal Martin, a potential adopter, rides Dude, a once-wild mustang that was rounded up and now is up for adoption as part of the Wild Horse Inmate Program during a wild horse and burro adoption day on Novem-ber 7, 2008 at the Cañon City Correctional Complex in Cañon City, Colorado.
LEFT TO RIGHTSupervisor Cody West monitors Jeffery Halstead during a lunch break for inmates participating in the Wild Horse and Inmate Program at the Cañon City Correctional Complex on November 4, 2009 in Cañon City, Colorado.
Inmates return to the Four Mile Correc-tional Center from their daily job with the Wild Horse and Inmate Program on March 17, 2010 in Cañon City, Colorado.
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Inmates pick up their work clothes and cowboy boots as they arrive at the Wild Horse and Inmate Program at the Cañon City Correctional Com-plex on March 17, 2010 in Cañon City, Colorado.
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Inmate Jeffery Halstead is patted down and searched upon return to the Four Mile Correctional Complex from his daily job with the Wild Horse and Inmate Program on March 17, 2010 in Cañon City, Colorado.
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