KLAS-TV Channel 8 News Las VegasStill No Answer From Nevada BLM on Wild Horse Budget Spending
Nevada's Bureau of Land Management is rounding up more wild horses than ever before. Thousands of horses have been removed from the ranges in the last two years.
In fact, there are now more wild horses in government pens than there are in the wild. So what does it cost to mount all of these roundups?
Apparently, the BLM doesn't know. Eyewitness News has been asking the BLM for this information since Feb. 16. Channel 8 filed an information request under the Freedom of Information Act to find out how the BLM is spending its wild horse budget and how much money is going toward finding homes for the horses.
BLM says that after almost six months, it is still trying to find the information.
U.S. Senator Harry Reid has entered the effort to secure the budget information, but even Reid has been stymied so far.
Channel 8 Eyewitness News intends to continue to pursue this request.
Wild horses advocates suspect that the drastic horse roundups Nevada has seen in recent months are related to the news that the BLM budget is being cut. Read on for upcoming adoption events and links to wild horse protection groups. More>>
Late Thursday, lawyers for wild horse advocates asked a federal judge to put an end to the current roundup. A similar request was rejected by Federal Court Judge Kent Dawson. Read on for links to the motion and complaint documents. More>>
