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2. Wild Horse Inmate Rehabilitation Programs - Wikipedia

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   Participants in an adoption event at Rio Cosumnes Correctional Center in California meet the mustangs up for adoption and their trainers. Made famous by the movie The Mustang, the Northern Nevada Correctional Center (NNCC) contains a facility next to the correctional facility that can hold up to 2,000 animals and provides areas for gentling wild horses and adoption events. [6]

3. Wild horses put up for adoption by the government are ending ...

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   It is no longer protected by the Wild Free Roaming Horses and Burros Act,” said Holle’ Waddell, division chief of the BLM’s Wild Horse and Burro Program, referring to the 1971 law.

4. Wild and Free-Roaming Horses and Burros Act of 1971

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   Their activism resulted in the Hunting Wild Horses and Burros on Public Lands Act in 1959. However, the 1959 Act did not resolve all the advocate's concerns, leading to the passage of the Wild and Free-Roaming Horses and Burros Act in 1971. The Bureau of Land Management (BLM) and US Forest Service manage these herds. Although the BLM struggled ...

5. Free-roaming horse management in North America - Wikipedia

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   Passage of the Wild Horse Annie Act did not alleviate the concerns of advocates for free-roaming horses, who continued to lobby for federal rather than state control over these horses. [55] At the same time, ownership of the free-roaming herds was contentious, and ranchers continued to use airplanes to gather them. [ 65 ]

6. Velma Bronn Johnston - Wikipedia

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   Driving to work one day in 1950, Johnston was following a truck overcrowded with horses and saw blood dripping from the back. She followed it to a slaughterhouse, [3] and upon learning they were free-roaming horses gathered from private and state lands in Nevada's Virginia Range, she took action to ensure more humane treatment of free-roaming horses when captured and transported.

7. List of animal welfare organizations - Wikipedia

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   Animal welfare organizations are concerned with the health, safety and psychological wellness of individual animals. These organizations include animal rescue groups and wildlife rehabilitation centers, which care for animals in distress and sanctuaries, where animals are brought to live and be protected for the rest of their lives.

8. Rescuers free 2 horses stuck in the mud in Connecticut - AOL

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   Workers were able to walk one horse out, but suction trapped the two, according to a Facebook posting by Stirrup Fun Stables Rescue, Inc. Rescuers free 2 horses stuck in the mud in Connecticut ...

9. Pryor Mountains Wild Horse Range - Wikipedia

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   As of 2001, the Adopt-a-Horse program was the primary method of removing excess feral horses from BLM and Forest Service land.) [49] In 1976, Congress included a provision in the Federal Land Policy and Management Act that permitted the humane use of helicopters in capturing free-roaming horses on federal land, and for the use of motorized ...