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Letter to the Editor: BLM not living up to word on horses

Dear Editor:
In response to the article in last week’s Herald Times titled “Court may rid Wyoming of wild horses,” the Douglas Creek and White River conservation districts would like to provide some basic factual information.
The national excess “wild” horse crisis:
There are currently 50,000 horses in government-funded holding facilities at the cost of more than $43 million per year to the American taxpayer.
As of February 2012, there were more than 37,300 horses…