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Why should we taxpayers support welfare ranchers in their greed? The cattle being pastured for virtually free, on PUBLIC land, not to even mention the lumber and energy industries, are doing all the damage out there, NOT the wild horses.
There are only 880 wild horses left in Alberta on 2.1 million acres of crown land. Many of the ranchers that say there are too many horses in the Sundre area (448 in total) have grazing leases where they rent the land from the gov't for few dollars an acre to run cows in the summer. Others want to develop the land for golf courses or private retreats. The Sundre equine area is about 370,600 acres and the ratio of wild horses is 1 horse per 827 acres. This is simply a political issue for people who want to make money on these wild horses they capture, the young foals can be rehomed, but the older wilder horses go to meat buyers.
With the number of wild horses we are talking about over a large area of Alberta, we are hardly being over run by them! Culling is not the answer when you are looking at eliminating a part of our western heritage, no matter where the horses came from, originated from, and so on. The plan to use contraceptive is equally disturbing to me - let them be. If we were talking thousands of animals running rampant, then perhaps methods of control would be necessary, but 880 animals, all who may or may not make it through a harsh winter, is hardly an epidemic. Really? This is really upsetting and doesn't reflect the Alberta I love to support.