By: Jenna Jackson  as shown on KCWY Channel 13 News

“A little too much time spent on the poor, pitiful welfare ranchers but Ginger managed to get some nice, and factual, nuggets in!” ~ R.T.

“They’re a native species, they’re fascinating to watch and they live in their family units. When they’re rounded up, that’s all taken away from them,” says Ginger Kathrens, The Cloud Foundation.

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The wild horse round-up has been an ongoing controversy and now the Bureau of Land Management has pushed back their round up date from August 20th to September 1st. Governor Mead has reminded the BLM that under the Wild Free Roaming Horse and Burro Act the federal government must remove wild horses that are overpopulating the land. But some horse groups still want to fight the issue

“They’re a native species, they’re fascinating to watch and they live in their family units. When they’re rounded up, that’s all taken away from them,” says Ginger Kathrens, The Cloud Foundation.

This is what the memberships of many groups believe.

At the Bureau of Land Management National Advisory Board meeting last Monday, these groups held a rally in support of keeping the horses on their land.

“If we were to lose all those horses I think we would lose a part of our history here in Wyoming. I think they are very important to the history of the state of Wyoming,” says Kathrens.

Here at the meeting as each member of the public who wanted to speak was given two minutes to comment about their beliefs; there was an overwhelming support for the horses…(CONTINUED)