Saving an American Icon

There are several wildlife preserves or sanctuaries across the United States for the protection of numerous different animal species or fauna while offering the opportunity to conduct study or research. Most are managed by the United States Fish and Wildlife Service. Others are run by state or local governments or private trusts. Right now the American wild horse population is in need of such a sanctuary and the wife of a Texas oil tycoon is ready and willing to do just that. Madeleine Pickens proposed to a House subcommittee that, “she is ready to create a “living museum” for an icon of the American West”. If any animal is deserving of protection and preservation, it is the noble horse, thousands of which are suffering abandonment and slaughter. Pickens and officials are in the middle of talks on how to best proceed with the proposed million acre refuge in Nevada. Let’s hope and pray that the powers that be don’t take their usual sweet time in coming to an agreeable solution. Time is one thing the American wild horse is quickly running out of.