There isn’t much good news coming out of the United States these days, so it was a welcome respite to see that the wild horse herd that lives in North Dakota’s Theodore Roosevelt National Park are one step closer to getting federal protection.
A resolution passed by the State Senate on February 12, sponsored by Senator Josh Boschee, a Democrat, asks Congress to pass legislation to provide the herd of approximately 200 horses with federal protection.
Resolution 4006 as it is known, furthers the issues set forth in another piece of recent passed legislation, Resolution 4010, that asked the National Park Service to modify its livestock management plan and to “recognize the benefits of livestock grazing, and to continue to allow for interpretative, cultural and historical purposes… the presence of a wild horse herd.”