Photo: U.S. Won't Kill Wild Horses -- For Now



About 33,000 wild horses roam the dusty open rangelands of ten western states, with about half of the population in Nevada, including these mustangs seen above.

Thousands of wild horses in U.S. care will not be put down to give the government another year to explore possible solutions and "let cooler heads prevail," U.S. officials said in November 2008.

Photograph by J. Bruce Baumann/NGS


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