Getting them closer to Oklahoma gets them closer to the slaughter house.

More trauma befalling captured wild horses as a stock trailer hauling 39 mares out of the BLM short-term holding pens in the West to long-term warehousing in Oklahoma crashed. Miraculously no one was hurt or seriously injured, but imagine the stress these poor horses have endured.
Why not just leave them alone, okay? If the BLM fracks as much as they round up horses, the animals won't be alive in the wild anyway.
By John M. Glionna

September 4, 2013, 1:00 p.m

...The BLM estimates that 49,000 wild horses (click here) are held in such facilities. In 2012, holding costs of $42 million devoured more than half of the BLM's $72-million budget for its horse and burro program.

About 31,500 remain on the range. In June, a panel from the National Academy of Sciences' National Research Council blasted the bureau's emphasis on roundups as "expensive and unproductive." The report calls for more birth control — a vaccine for mares, chemical vasectomies for males — and urged the agency to show greater transparency in how it operates.

Grijalva has said it makes no sense to spend tens of millions of taxpayer dollars to round up horses from their native range when the government has no room to store them. He said he's especially worried about recent research suggesting BLM roundups have the unintended consequence of actually increasing wild horse populations.

Bragato told The Times that the timing of this week’s visit to Nevada is critical: Next week, the BLM’s Wild Horse and Burro Advisory Board meets.

“He has his eye on that meeting and wants to send a message on the importance of reforming the program,” Bragato said....

They mate while in captivity rather than running away from being mated. Fertile males are known to receive fatal injuries from kicking mares. The BLM should not interfer this way. If there are homes lined up for the horses BEFORE the round up that would insure they would be properly cared for, but, to simply round them up and pen them is not the way to go.

These are the nation's horses and we need to take advise from people able to find the facts.

Using Science to Improve the BLM Wild Horse and Burro Program:

A Way Forward (2013)

...science-based methods (click here) exist for improving population estimates, predicting the effects of management practices in order to maintain genetically diverse, healthy populations, and estimating the productivity of rangelands. Greater transparency in how science-based methods are used to inform management decisions may help increase public confidence in the Wild Horse and Burro Program.