- Since the 19th century the number of wild horsed roaming the West has decreased by 98%
- Wild horse habitat has been reduced by 41% since 1971, a net loss of 15.5 million acres.
- Since the passage of The Wild and Free-Roaming Horses and Burros Act in 1971, hundreds of thousands of wild horses and burros have been removed from public lands — including about 90,000 from 2012-22.
- About 69% of the BLM’s budget is spent on roundups and warehousing wild horses
- The BLM has never spent as much as 4% of its annual budget on using proven, safe, and humane fertility control and solutions to manage wild horses and burros on the range
- Managing wild horses and burros on the range would save tens of millions of dollars a year
- Feed and care of captured wild horses in government off-range holding facilities costs American taxpayers more than $228,000 DAILY
- 12 times more forage on federal land managed by the BLM is authorized for livestock grazing than for wild horses and burros
- Livestock grazing on public lands costs American taxpayers a loss of over $132 million/year in direct costs — yet provides less than 3% of America’s beef supply
