Anyone following Friends of the Herber Wild Horses on Facebook?
The horses and foals have no water other then a mud pit and every day volunteers have to rope them and pull them out of the mud so they don’t get stuck.
I don’t understand why the volunteers can’t put in water troughs?
might be because it makes for sensational press when having to recue the horses?
Never heard of this organization before you posted the link, nor would have if the sensible thing of adding water troughs would have been done
Doesn’t it have something to do with the water rights laws?
@clanter & @MorganSercu
According to the FB page, US Forest Service won’t allow the volunteers to bring water to this herd.
I wonder what PETA would think about that. Maybe that’s something they should sink their teeth into.
{shudder} I doubt a PETA-esque response would change the USFS minds 
The group repeatedly asks that calls made on their behalf s/b respectful.
A quality PETAphiles seem to lack.
In spades 
Wild animals die when they overrun their resources. This group can’t have it both ways: either they are wild animals or they are not.
That’s a very cruel way to die. Especially when there are volunteers willing to bring in water.
I doubt most ways wild animals die are anything but cruel.
I think it is rare that they curl up and go to sleep and randomly die while sleeping.
Nope. These are feral horses not native wild creatures so they fall under our responsibility. In addition, they are on the poorest land available because the ranching interests have forced them onto the poorest land for grazing on purpose. I love how wild horses are pushed off HMAs for grazing leases and into more and more fragile ecosystems that can’t support them. Then, the BLM freaks out about the damage the horses are doing to the ecosystem (which was entirely predictable). No, we put those horses there. They scavenged from BLM to USFS land because they had nowhere else to go. Whether you like them or not, 80% of the public wants them on public land. So, they need to be managed humanely and allowed to roam on land that can reasonably support grazing animals. Not shoved onto fragile desert ecosystems. This is our fault. We should fix it. We should provide them water. The rules are bullsh@t ways to kill them off for grazing interests.
As long as the BLM is run as the Bureau of Livestock and Mining, any animal that isn’t grazing-share paid livestock or big game that attracts tag-buying hunters will be considered inconvenient.
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