No, Nevada’s wild horses aren’t facing mass euthanasia

Re: A response to: Jennifer Caudill, “ Nevada’s wild horses are one sentence away from mass euthanasia ," in RGJ Sept. 8, 2025.

First of all, Jennifer Caudill’s headline is purposefully misleading. Nevada’s wild horses are not one sentence away from “mass” euthanasia.

She tells us that there is a single sentence in the Interior-Environment appropriations bill that will result in the mass euthanasia of tens of thousands of wild horses, killed on the taxpayer’s dime. That’s a pretty damning comment. Yet she never tells us what that single sentence is. Perhaps that’s because the actual wording is simply a reasonable request to restore content removed from the original version of the Wild Free-Roaming Horses and Burros Act of 1971.

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