BLM offering horses, burros for adoption

The Bureau of Land Managment -BLM- has some wild horses and burros they want to give away.

The BLM says horses and burros – small donkies- have overpopulated ranges in the west.

They’re offering individual wild horses for adoption. Horses unlikely to be adopted go to private ranges run by contractors for the agency’s Wild Horse and Burro program.

Many people have found it personally challenging and rewarding to adopt or purchase a wild horse or burro.  It is a chance to care for, and then own, a part of America’s heritage.

The BLM has placed more than 240,000 wild horses and burros into private care since 1971. Many of those animals have become excellent pleasure, show, or work horses.

Right now, the BLM pays landowners to provide a home for some 36,000 rounded-up wild horses at 37 locations in nine states.

The BLM says three times as many wild horses and burros roam the West than can thrive in balance with the landscape.