Two organizations, Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility and Western Watersheds Project, have both used the BLM’s own data to show that it is livestock, not horses, that are responsible for damaging our public lands. It’s revealing that the BLM pushed the narrative that the iconic and beloved Sand Wash Basin horses of northwestern Colorado had to be removed due to lack of water and forage, yet recently, just weeks after removing 600 wild horses from their federally-designated habitat, the BLM allowed a rancher to turn thousands of sheep onto the range where the horses once lived.
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