Nevada Senate Natural Resources Committee Passes Anti-Mustang Resolution

Last Friday, March 11, 2011, the Nevada Senate Natural Resources Committee passed Senate Joint Resolution (SJR) 5. This resolution, while non-binding, opposes solutions currently being explored by the Interior Department's Bureau of Land Management (BLM) to create mustang preserves in Nevada. Sadly, a small group of special interest ranchers have gotten Nevada legislators to put special interests above the public good and created SJR5. This anti-mustang resolution must be stopped - it is not good for Nevada and it's not good for mustangs and burros.
Tourism is the #1 industry in the state of Nevada - more money and jobs are generated by tourism than any other industry in the state. With more than half of all wild horses and burros residing in Nevada - wild horses are one of the state's most valuable untapped assets. Now is the time to put Nevada's two best assets together - tourism and mustangs - and create a world-class wild horse and burro eco-tourism industry. This is a promising new opportunity for Nevada - with preserve proposals from Return to Freedom and Saving America's Mustangs currently under review with the BLM.
However, SJR5, if passed, would send a message from the state of Nevada to the Interior Department that the state does not want wild horse preserves and prefers to continue the decades-old unfair and unsustainable wild horse management program, which favors the interests of livestock ranchers over the wishes of the general public.
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