Wild-horse advocates tried to challenge a federal relocation proposal by flying a banner over Denver on Friday afternoon that called Interior Secretary Ken Salazar “the slaughter czar.”
New Mexico-based Wild Horse Observers Association co-founder Patience O’Dowd said her group opposes Salazar’s proposal to relocate thousands of the wild horses that roam the West.
They paid $2,000 to fly the banner over the Federal Center in Lakewood, where the Interior Department has offices, and over central Denver until sunset.
The proposal calls for keeping some 25,000 non-reproducing horses at seven preserves in the Midwest and East.
It would be more humane and feasible to manage growing wild herds by shooting birth-control darts at the horses from helicopters, O’Dowd said.
Bruce Finley, The Denver Post
