The current on-line adoption has been extended one week. The electronic application (on the How to Adopt Page) will be available until Noon Central Time on July 29. Bidding will end at Noon Central time on July 30.

The Wild Free-Roaming Horses and Burros Act of 1971 gave the Department of the Interior’s Bureau of Land Management (BLM) and the Department of Agriculture’s United States Forest Service the authority to manage, protect, and control wild horses and burros on the nation’s public rangelands to ensure healthy herds and healthy rangelands. Wild horses live tightly knit groups comprised of one stallion, a lead mare and subordinate mares with their foals (offspring less than a year old). The typical group is about seven members.

An estimated 33,000 wild horses and burros roam BLM-managed lands in 10 Western states, a population that exceeds by some 5,700 the number that can exist in balance with other public rangeland resources and uses. The horses have virtually no natural predators and their herd sizes can double about every four years.

Auction info wildhorseandburro.blm.gov

Posted: 07|28|08 at 9:22 am. Filed under: US News.