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Message: <blockquote data-quote="dennishoddy" data-source="post: 3974620" data-attributes="member: 5412">Agree 100%. I'm near the Salt river in Arizona currently where the horses run wild. The state or feds have put in miles of fencing to keep the horses from crossing the highways, allowing them to cross where creeks/rivers cross the highway in overpasses. The story of the wild horses moves into Oklahoma and other states where ranchers go into contract with the feds to shelter the wild horses where they receive millions of tax dollars in return. MAXWELL, Neb. (CBS4) — In 2021, it cost $78 million in federal taxpayer money to care for nearly 60,000 wild horses and burros that were rounded up out of the wild and moved into holding facilities run by the Bureau of Land Management. Some horse advocates say that's a waste of taxpayer dollars, but the BLM says it's a necessary expense.Because many off-range pastures are privately owned, it's unusual for the public to get a look inside, making some horse advocates skeptical of treatment.But when CBS4 news cameras were given a rare tour of a facility in Maxwell, Neb., in late April, the more than 900 horses relocated there appeared healthy with plenty of room to roam.Harry Haythorn runs the off-range pasture in Maxwell, located about a four-hour drive northeast of Denver, just across the border of the Mountain and Central time zones. He says he takes great pride and joy in caring for the horses at taxpayer expense.Many landowners in Oklahoma are sheltering the horses. Tboon Pickens wife was a champion of promoting this in Ok. The Drummond ranch in Osage county that encompasses over 400,000 acres makes millions of dollars sheltering these wild horses. Ree Drummond, 48, and her husband Ladd own a whopping 433,000 acres of the Sooner State, making them the 23rd largest landowners in the country, according to the <a href="http://www.landreport.com/2017/06/2016-land-report-100-drummond-family/" target="_blank">Land Report 100.</a>Their bovine enterprises keep money flowing in steadily, but they also have a giant tenant they rent to in the form of the U.S. government. Since 2006, the government has paid the Drummonds an average of $2 million a year to keep burros and wild horses on the estate, with the land going to "support animal protection," the <a href="http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-5079173/Pioneer-Woman-Ree-Drummond-revealed-largest-landowner.html" target="_blank">Daily Mail reported</a>.[URL unfurl="true"]https://www.ajc.com/entertainment/celebrity-news/government-pays-the-pioneer-woman-million-year-use-her-massive-estate/cgyw5WBjUJIHb6PizHqlLI/[/URL]</blockquote>

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