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Over the last few years, small Kansas towns have been offering free rural land, lots and cheap fixer-uppers to newcomers. As the nationwide housing shortage continues and city living becomes...
In 1976, the BLM officially established an "Adopt-a-Horse" program, to place excess horses that had been removed, but had no authority to pass title to the adopters. [74] [g] By 1977, there were 60,000 animals on the range, [75] the lower end of numbers estimated to be on the range in 1930.
Evolving from both the Remount Service of the Quartermaster Corps and a general horse-breeding program under the control of the Department of Agriculture, the Remount Service began systematically breeding horses for the United States Cavalry in 1918. It remained in operation until 1948, when all animal-breeding programs returned to Department ...
Free land, costly homes. The idea stretches back to the Homestead Act of 1862: Spur economic growth in rural America by giving away free land to those who will make good use of it.
Free-roaming horses in Utah. Although the Act uses the technical language "wild free-roaming" to describe the horses and burros protected under the Act, the BLM notes that "today's American wild horses should not be considered 'native'." All protected animals descend from domesticated horses and burros brought to the Americas beginning in the ...
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The city of Topeka, Kansas, wants people to move there — and it has been offering economic incentives to attract new residents and workers, including Latino and immigrant families.. Under the ...
The Southern New Mexico Correctional Facility made an agreement with the BLM in 1988 which began their well-known but short-lived Wild Horse Inmate Rehabilitation Program. At first, only older horses were sent to the program so they would be easier to adopt, but it eventually turned into a much larger program, inspiring similar programs to ...