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Federal government offering $1000. to anyone adopting a child wild horse
2019-03-19
[The Hill] The Bureau of Land Management (BLM) said it will offer up to $1,000 to anyone who adopts a wild horse in an effort to "encourage more adopters to give a wild horse or burro a good home."

The agency said in a statement that it will be providing the funds under its Adoption Incentive Program for anyone who decides to take in an untrained wild horse or burro from the agency.

The agency said the goal of the program is to reduce the department’s "recurring costs to care for unadopted and untrained wild horses and burros while helping to enable the BLM to confront a growing over-population of wild horses and burros on fragile public rangelands."

Under the new program, qualified adopters are eligible to receive $500 "within 60 days of adoption of an untrained wild horse and burro" and another $500 "within 60 days of titling the animal."

The agency added that the incentive is available for all untrained animals that are eligible for adoption, including animals at BLM facilities and off-site events.
Posted by:Besoeker

#12  SwksvolFF, you're thinking scallions.
Posted by: Skidmark   2019-03-19 21:39  

#11  Honest-To-God I drive around them all the time where I live. (They get out in the road a lot.) It's hard to say how many wild horses are in the Nevada outback these days. Tens of thousands? Hundreds of thousands? The BLM isn't exactly your crack federal agency.
Posted by: Secret Master   2019-03-19 21:34  

#10  Hard Pass! I expect that if you take them up on this the Government will require you to waive your Privacy Rights in the future. At any time they will be able to bring anyone (EPA, DEA, AFT, et cetera) on your 'private' property tagging along with them.
Locally I knew a farmer that was offered "Free Fish for his Farm Pond", of course the State Wild Life wanted free rein in the future to "inspect the fishies" (and anything else they cared to look at, but that was unsaid). He kept the gate closed and told them to get off his property.
Posted by: magpie   2019-03-19 19:44  

#9  Bogus.
Posted by: swksvolFF   2019-03-19 17:56  

#8  Trust me, a wild stallion is extremely difficult to tame. Somebody's probably gonna get hurt.
Posted by: Deacon Blues   2019-03-19 17:50  

#7  And I was annoyed when I lived in VFD country and those drunk assholes thought they should get gummint pensions...
Posted by: M. Murcek   2019-03-19 17:45  

#6  Wild Stallions?
Excellent!
Posted by: swksvolFF   2019-03-19 14:54  

#5  thousand bucks each, god money for Parisian meat
Posted by: 746   2019-03-19 14:18  

#4  Ah'l take 20.
Posted by: Skidmark   2019-03-19 13:39  

#3  Kinda hard to keep track of wild horses. I wonder how many will actually be adopted. Probably ought to audit this program after a year or two and see how many are still alive and how many just "disappeared".
Posted by: gorb   2019-03-19 12:14  

#2  Or issue hunting licenses. But that wouldn't increase BLM's budget.
Posted by: Ulomosh Whamp4579   2019-03-19 10:50  

#1  Purina to the courtesy phone.
Posted by: Procopius2k   2019-03-19 10:43  

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