Protection, Management, and Control of Wild Free-roaming Horses and Burros: Hearings Before the Subcommittee on Public Lands and Reserved Water of the Committee on Energy and Natural Resources, United States Senate, Ninety-eighth Congress, First Session, on S. 457 ... Rock Springs, Wyo., March 19, 1983; Washington, D.C., April 11, 1983 |
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adopt-a-horse program adoption centers adoption demand adoption fee adoption program agencies AHPA amendments American American Humane Association antelope April 11 auction believe BLM's Bureau of Land BURFORD Burro Act burro population burro program Burro Research cattle Center for Wild CHAIRMAN Challis checkerboard lands Committee Congress costs destroyed excess animals excess horses excess wild horses existing FALLINI feral horses forage Forest Service grazing groups Heather Thomas horse program horses and burros horses or burros Humane Society Idaho increase interest Land Management legislation livestock Malcolm Wallop McClure mustangs Nevada NOWAH number of horses number of wild percent problem proposed public lands ranch ranchers rangelands reduce removed Rock Springs roundups RYDEN sale authority Secretary Senate bill 457 Senator MELCHER Senator WALLOP slaughter statement testimony Thank U.S. Forest Service U.S. SENATOR unadoptable horses wild burros wild equid Wild Free-Roaming Horse wild horse population wildlife Wyoming
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Page 91 - ... lands administered by the Bureau of Land Management and the US Forest Service. The...
Page 120 - Administration, with members in the 50 States, Puerto Rico, the Virgin Islands? and the District of Columbia.
Page 185 - American scene. It is the policy of Congress that wild free-roaming horses and burros shall be protected from capture, branding, harassment, or death ; and to accomplish this they are to be considered in the area where presently found, as an integral part of the natural system of the public lands.
Page 3 - A BILL To require the protection, management, and control of wild free-roaming horses and burros on public lands...
Page 93 - Policy and Management Act of 1976 and the Public Rangelands Improvement Act of 1978, and grazing on national grasslands.
Page 93 - Congress finds and declares that wild freeroaming horses and burros are living symbols of the historic and pioneer spirit of the West; that they contribute to the diversity of life forms within the Nation and enrich the lives of the American people; and that these horses and burros are fast disappearing from the American scene.
Page 117 - Herd means one or more stallions and their mares, or jacks and their jennies. (5) Humane treatment means kind and merciful treatment, without causing unnecessary stress or suffering to the animal. (6) Inhumane...
Page 116 - Any judge of a court established under the laws of the United States, or any United States magistrate may, within his respective jurisdiction, upon proper oath or affirmation showing probable cause, issue warrants in all such cases.
Page 94 - STATEMENT OF HON. STEVE SYMMS, A US SENATOR FROM THE STATE OF IDAHO Mr.
Page 209 - Legislation requiring the protection, management, and control of wild, free-roaming horses and burros on public lands was enacted late in the session.