Grand Canyon University: ADM-624
01/16/2013
In my opinion the Bureau of Land Management has had a great impact with all the services they have provided over the time. As the years have past it has become triple the coast to keep up with maintaining the care, services, shelter, and feeding of these horses. I understand the need and want to keep the horses population from dying out being instinct and letting them run freely in the wild as they are known to do. Not all animals should be restricted to where they can roam to just as humans. Also like the human race the more you roam and run wild the more it is going to cost you along with you reproducing. That is another mouth to take care of and provide for including yourself.
With the herd of horses double at the rate of every four years and more money going out to stay maintaining all the faculties in all 10 western states it is now time for some decision making steps. The BLM has different options that will help provide more funding and are required to obtain through the amended, “Wild Free-Roaming Horses and Burros Act”. Which still allows the horses to run freely and still producing to keep their race alive while maintaining good health. These different options rage from adoption, being sold with no limitations, and even put down in the most benevolent and cost efficient way.
BML knows their options but with most options comes concerns. These concerns are mainly of what the public congressional would have to say about the selling of the horses with no limits and the slaughtering of thousands of healthy horse. Regardless of what might be said about the BLM’s and their actions this is a requirement that they must meet and abide by. Due to the BLM’s not abiding by those requirements as left them in the state they are currently in with to many horse and not enough funding. There are also a few more options that are in the works and being looked at which is birth control for the horse to
References: ADM 624 Lecture 6 Read chapter 6. http://gcumedia.com/digital-resources/cengage/2011/managing-the-public-sector_ebook_9e.php Case 6.1 Wild Horse