Anna de Noailles Quotes

To do our job, we have to take all the resources into account, not just the horses.

It is a very sobering feeling to be up in space and realize that one`s safety factor was determined by the lowest bidder on a government contract

When we do a gather to control populations, we remove down to the low end and allow it to build up over a period of three to four years, ... We allow them to have an increase over a period of time then take the population down to the low end of the range.

We are exceeding our management levels for these two wild horse populations.

We`re placing them into good homes where they`ll be loved and taken care of and used as a useful animal or just pets. The alternative is we either leave them on the range and they damage the public lands because they`re overpopulated, or we put them into large-scale holding operations where they don`t get used; they don`t get touched; they just sit there.

There`s nothing that you can`t do with a domestic horse that you can`t do with these. It`s just time and effort and energy.

The adoption program is critical to us for the management of the wild horses. It`s our mechanism to place our excess horses that are removed from the range.

The populations are so large it`s taken a couple of gathers to get down to our target numbers. We don`t want to do any further damage to the habitat they`re in. The area is critical elk, deer and antelope winter range.