A new report from the National Academy of Sciences reviews the science that underpins the Bureau of Land Management's oversight of free-ranging horses and burros on federal public lands in the western United States, concluding that constructive changes could be implemented. Improvements to current management practices that could be made include using better methods for estimating population size, increasing use of fertility-control treatments, and improving methods for measuring the amount of available forage. The report provides evidence-based approaches that, if applied widely and communicated transparently to the public, can improve the management of the animals under the Wild Horse and Burro Program.
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