Select Committee approves resolution urging Congress to expand wild-horse management options

The Select Committee advanced a joint resolution asking Congress to amend federal statutes governing wild horses and burros to allow additional methods for managing and disposing of animals that exceed appropriate management levels. The committee’s LSO counsel, Talise Hansen, told members the draft cites the Wild Free-Roaming Horses and Burros Act, the hunting prohibition and the Federal Meat Inspection Act as background for the requests. "This joint resolution was requested by the chairman," Hansen said during her presentation.