Top Interior official calls for ending bans on selling, euthanizing wild horses

A senior Interior Department official called Wednesday for lifting restrictions on sales and euthanasia for wild horses and burros to rein in run-away costs associated with managing growing  herds roaming the West’s public rangelands.The 73,000 free-roaming equines on public land are now triple what these lands can support, costing taxpayers more than $50 million a year to care for another 45,000 held in off-range corrals and pastures, according to Aurelia Skipwith, deputy assist