Tuesday, May 18, 2004
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Horse advocates plan protest
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
RENO -- Wild horse advocates opposed to increased roundups on Nevada rangelands plan to demonstrate outside a Bureau of Land Management hearing next month.
Bonnie Matton, president of the Wild Horse Preservation League, said her group believes discussion on rangeland management should include limits on cattle, not just horse removals.
The group, which has been holding weekly demonstrations since February outside the governor's office in Carson City, will protest plans to remove thousands of horses from Nevada lands during BLM's annual hearing June 8 on the use of helicopters in roundups.
Federal law requires such hearings be conducted annually.
Nevada is home to roughly half the estimated 40,000 wild horses and burros in the West.
