- About Us Horse Sterilization in Western States A citizen
advisory panel is recommending that the federal government
consider sterilizing some wild horses and burros that freely
roam across miles of federal land in the West. Members of the
Wild Horse and Burro Advisory Board say the Bureau of Land
Management should consider the step to protect rangelands and
control booming populations of mustangs in 10 Western states.
The bureau already uses vaccines to slow horses from reproducing
and rounds them up for adoption, but thousands of those horses
currently live in captivity. The BLM also has been criticized
for allowing a horse slaughter proponent to buy hundreds of
horses over the past five years. The agency acknowledged Monday
that its inspector general is investigating allegations that the
Colorado man purchased more than 1,700 horses for slaughter in
Mexico.