A wild horse sanctuary in Colorado has agreed to adopt 70 free-roaming Alpine horses rounded up in Arizona and sold by the U.S. Forest Service at two recent online auctions.
Simone Netherlands, president of the Salt River Wild Horse Management Group based in Prescott, Arizona, said volunteers raised $50,000 on short notice to purchase the horses this month.
Netherlands said the nonprofit organization Wild Horse Refuge in Craig, Colorado, agreed to accept up to 100 Alpine horses, but no more.
“It’s absolutely horrible,” Netherlands said of the group’s limited ability to find new homes for the animals.
Wild horses roam free on state and some private land, outside federal disengaged horse management areas on May 31, 2017, outside Milford, Utah. (George Frey/Getty Images)
“We literally own 70 wild Alpine horses right now,” Netherlands told The Epoch Times. “We can’t handle more.”…