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Commentary: Grazing and oil, not wild horses, degrade public lands

Asking an agency wedded to the meat industry how to manage wild horses on public lands is like asking Harvey Weinstein to come up with a plan to address the atrocities against women.

(Al Hartmann | The Salt Lake Tribune) Simone Netherland with the The American Wild Horse Campaign, left, speaks at a protest and news conference in front of the downtown Marriott Hotel where Utah officials hosted a wild horse conference Wednesday, Aug. 23. The advocates were not allowed into the conference and believe the forum is for promoting the slaughter of wild horses and burros that roam the West's public lands.