5-10 FB Tribal Horses

 Back to the problem with feral and abandoned horses. It’s not going away despite what all the bleeding heart liberal lawyers who live in urban areas have to say. No this isn’t Rush Limbaugh talking, it’s David Sparks and I have talked with people who are living day to day with the situation of being overrun by wild, hungry, make that starving horses who are being forced to tear up rangeland just to stay alive. I’ll be back in a minute to give you some numbers. Forget about what’s going on on public lands. Let’s talk about reservations in Idaho, Oregon, and Washington where horses are a vibrant part of  native American ways of life and culture. Who should know more about a horse problem then members of the National Tribal Horse Coalition which is having difficulty figuring out how to deal with thousands, yes I said thousands of feral and abandoned horses that are devastating rangeland and resources in their own backyard. Here’s Bret Haskett,  director of enforcement for the Shoshone-Bannock Tribes‘ Fish and Game Department:  “It’s not only an overpopulation but we have an onslaught of unwanted horses due to the economy and the fact that there is no place to get rid of these unwanted horses since the processing plants were shut down in the United States.” It’s a tragedy that needs to be dealt with by logical people.