The Wild-Free Roaming Horse and Burro Act of 1971 was supposed to protect these majestic animals, yet only there are on 64,000 wild horses left. Herding areas have been reduced by more than 50% and almost 20,000 horses and burros were removed and put into long-term holding pens between November 2021 and October 2021. Sadly, […]
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POLL: Should Death Valley’s iconic burros be rounded up and slaughtered?
Burros have been a familiar sight in Death Valley going back to the California Gold Rush in the mid-1800s, when prospectors used them as transportation and then left them behind. Over the next century, the burros multiplied, ate up much of the vegetation and otherwise damaged the ecosystem in the Death Valley area, which was […]