Wild Mustangs Find Asylum
NBC CEO and Others Fail to Prevent Their Arrival
BY QUINCY ORHAI
05/09/13
After a long legal battle of over 3 years, pitting New West neighbors against the government (and Karen and Greg Rice of the Spanish Q Ranch) 700 BLM surplus wild horses have found a new home under the big skies of Montana.
The gelded, vaccinated and freeze-marked mustangs will be perpetually boarded at the Spanish Q near Ennis. These wild horses have been gathered from government lands and were held at short term holding facilities around the country by the Bureau of Land Manage-ment's National Wild Horse and Burro Program. Although Montana has long had a BLM operated wild horse refuge in the Pryor Mountains south of Billings, where over a hundred mustangs roam free, the Spanish Q is the first BLM contracted long-term holding facility in Montana, or Grasslands Pasture (as the agency now prefers to call them). Fourteen other National Wild Horse and Burro Grasslands Pastures can be found in eleven other states and over 160 short-term holding facilities.
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