Tucson Citizen: TOO MANY WILD HORSES: Mustang Sanctuary: a plan to save money for the BLM while moving some mustangs to lands in Mexico
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Cattle ranchers and the government say there’s just not just enough room for all the wild horses that make their home on the range, but advocates fear plans to round up more mustangs will lead many of the animals to the slaughterhouse.

About 42,000 wild horses and up to 5,000 wild burros roam in herds through just about every state west of the Rockies. But this year, with a record drought stealing their water supply and wildfires roasting their habitat, this already large population faces its hardest times ever.

CNN: Government loses track of thousands of adopted horses
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A couple thousand pounds’ worth of horse pulling tons of wood from the forest is an old way of working. But the method is helping meet today’s need for wood — and keeping the land in good shape for tomorrow.

“I just like the way the woods look when we leave,” says horse logger David Matherson. “In a lot of cases we’ve logged and went in a place and people never knew we was there.”

The horses, some of them descendants of wild mustangs, find plenty of water and ornamental shrubs to snack on in Hidden Valley. Some residents say it’s nice to have the creatures moving among them and occasionally peeking in their kitchen windows, but they also say the problems are piling up. “Look at all of this manure. I don’t think it enhances the neighborhood any, do you?” a resident says.

The tiny horse, only 4 feet tall, was discovered purely by chance, grazing in groups of two or three in the Riwoche Valley, an unexplored region in northeastern Tibet. The expedition, led by French anthropologist Michel Peissel to study another rare species of horse, had been forced to divert from it’s planned route due to bad weather.