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Wild horse and burro advocates had great hopes when Debra Haaland was confirmed to the cabinet post of U.S. Secretary of the Interior. Although she has been a strong voice for wild horses and burros, many factions are trying to sway her to their anti-horse agenda. We must support her with a unified front to save these iconic American equids from violent roundups and barbaric sterilization surgeries.

The Department of the Interior (DOI) oversees the Bureau of Land Management (BLM), which in turn directs the "management" of wild horses and burros on public lands under its jurisdiction. The BLM has failed miserably in this directive and has compounded both the issues facing wild herds and the associated cost to taxpayers from its failed policies.

While the DOI oversees thousands of environmental, energy, and wild animal issues, we must elevate the wild horse and burro issues to a priority level. In past years, the BLM has completely caved in to the livestock industry and its allies, who apply political pressure to remove wild horses from their rightful place on public lands via brutal helicopter roundups, and continues to pursue schemes to subject mares to a brutal type of surgical sterilization — despite public outcry and objections from the National Academy of Sciences.

We must encourage the Secretary and the DOI to use science and facts to make decisions on wild equid management instead of kowtowing to money-driven special interests that profit from lands that belong to all of us, and to disavow the Path Forward, a plan that supports massive roundups and the holding of an additional 20,000-30,000 horses annually for up to 18 years. Not only is this plan a cruel disaster for wild horses, it's estimated that it will cost taxpayers $360 million every year.

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