Call to Action: Follow the Law—Restore Balance on America’s Rangelands

Why Act Now

• Wild-horse & burro herds have soared to ≈73,000 on-range—nearly 3× the Appropriate Management Level (25,556), while another 67,000 animals sit in off-range facilities that consume 71 % of the program budget.

• Since 2005, annual appropriations “riders” have stripped BLM of its legal authority to sell excess animals without restriction or to humanely euthanize un-adoptable horses over age ten, paralyzing real management.

• These constraints accelerate habitat degradation, displace native wildlife, and drain taxpayer resources.

Our Position

We simply ask Congress to honor the 1971 Wild Free-Roaming Horses & Burros Act as written.

1. Healthy Ecosystems – Reduce herds to AML so vegetation, soils, water, wildlife, livestock, and recreation can thrive together.

2. Science-Based Wildlife Protection – Manage horses and burros like every other grazing animal, using fertility control after AML is reached.

3. Adoption & Direct Sale First – Restore BLM’s authority to offer animals >10 years old for adoption or sale without a one-year title hold before euthanasia is considered as a humane last resort.

What Congress Must Do in FY 26

• Remove the FY 2005 “sale-ban” rider from the Interior, Environment & Related Agencies bill.

• Fully fund and direct BLM to gather roughly 20,000 excess animals per year until AML is met, then pivot to fertility control.

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