I'm not real sure that most of us true western ranchers think that all the so called "wild" horses need to be eliminated all together,but they damn sure need a lot of management. We as the good lord intended were to be in charge of all creatures because he figured we were to have intellengence and reasoning power,comman sense and abilities enough to rule over these lesser animals. We have even failed in this department. A civilized society that spend's big bucks to pretend that some of these predators need reviveing and defending when we really have a human need for assisstance,or that nearly every wild thing must be protected is more than stupid. So many of any animal will,over time, get to be to much. Mother nature see's to that in most species and we can stand back and watch. The ones I feel sorry for in the long run is the animal's that we "protect" for some unknown reason. In the longrun they will pay a horrible penalty. Think about the Leachmen horses south of Billings, another smaller bunch near Absorkee, some 100-125 head near Bismarck ,the dog lady somewhere so.west of Billings and the list go'es on .. These persons are not managers or even kindhearted thety are greedy,ignorent stupid and a disgrace to the human race. All this said I'll bet in just a few years these 700+ horse's will be back in the news starveing to death or some other awfull problem.