Wild Horse Protections Act

Back In the old days of cowboys and Indians wild horses were wrangled into corrals to "control"them. In Utah they were headed into the dead ends of the canyons where the ideal horses were taken to be used for work and various riding activities and the others were left in the canyon to die. 


For what seems to be decades the wild horses have been slaughtered, herded and pushed out of their natural habitat. That all changed in 1971 when the Wild Horse Protection Act was passed. It was first proposed by the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) and The U.S. forest service (FS).  The law protects those few horses still left in the wild today. The law gave rights to the free roaming horses. It stated.....

• provide cost effective management to the free roaming horses to ensure they have natural resources readily available
• Keep track of herd migration patterns to prevent Wranglers form herding and branding the horses
• Keep tally on number of herds in the area 
• The BLM and the FS should redraw herd management area and territory boundaries to re-establish the historic ranges of America's wild horses and burros taking into consideration the year long biological needs (seasonal movements and distribution patterns) of wild horses and burros.

The overall Goal of this law is that someday the Horses Natural Habitat will be able to sustain itself without any other human interference. Although the human population is doing everything in its will power to keep the herds alive, we still bay be interfering with the natural occurrence of things.