Ford helping wild Mustangs
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LAS VEGAS(AP) Citing the mustang as a "great symbol for our company," the Ford Motor Co. pledged money Tuesday to help find new homes for wild horses rounded up on federal rangeland in the West.
"It just seemed like the natural thing to do," Ziad Ojakli, a Ford vice president, said at a ranch outside Las Vegas where he and federal officials trumpeted the Bureau of Land Management's "Save the Mustangs" campaign.
Ford introduced the Mustang line in 1964, selling some 8.5 million of the cars since then.
Its mustang relocation plan was spurred by the April slaughter of 41 horses at an Illinois meatpacking plant after the horses were rounded up and sold by the BLM under sale authority Congress approved in December.
Ford stepped in and spent about $20,000 to buy 52 additional horses. Ojakli said the company will now underwrite transportation of the horses to new homes.
The auto company is promising to pay the cost of shipping to nonprofit groups and Indian tribes for up to 2,000 of the 8,000 wild horses awaiting sale under newly adopted safeguards.
Buyers now must sign a statement saying they have no intention of reselling the horses for slaughter.
Democratic Sen. Harry Reid credited Ford and the BLM with addressing what he and Republican Rep. Jon Porter described as a difficult problem.
"Sanctuaries in South Dakota and Oklahoma haven't worked as well as we had hoped," Reid conceded. Porter said horses on wild rangelands face overpopulation partly as a result of lingering drought.
"We want to ensure we can protect these wild horses for the future," he said.
Nevada is home to more than half the nearly 32,000 wild horses and burros still roaming 10 Western states. The BLM says the range can only sustain about 28,000 without interfering with other land uses.
Some 22,500 mustangs removed from the range are being held in federal holding facilities.
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LAS VEGAS(AP) Citing the mustang as a "great symbol for our company," the Ford Motor Co. pledged money Tuesday to help find new homes for wild horses rounded up on federal rangeland in the West.
"It just seemed like the natural thing to do," Ziad Ojakli, a Ford vice president, said at a ranch outside Las Vegas where he and federal officials trumpeted the Bureau of Land Management's "Save the Mustangs" campaign.
Ford introduced the Mustang line in 1964, selling some 8.5 million of the cars since then.
Its mustang relocation plan was spurred by the April slaughter of 41 horses at an Illinois meatpacking plant after the horses were rounded up and sold by the BLM under sale authority Congress approved in December.
Ford stepped in and spent about $20,000 to buy 52 additional horses. Ojakli said the company will now underwrite transportation of the horses to new homes.
The auto company is promising to pay the cost of shipping to nonprofit groups and Indian tribes for up to 2,000 of the 8,000 wild horses awaiting sale under newly adopted safeguards.
Buyers now must sign a statement saying they have no intention of reselling the horses for slaughter.
Democratic Sen. Harry Reid credited Ford and the BLM with addressing what he and Republican Rep. Jon Porter described as a difficult problem.
"Sanctuaries in South Dakota and Oklahoma haven't worked as well as we had hoped," Reid conceded. Porter said horses on wild rangelands face overpopulation partly as a result of lingering drought.
"We want to ensure we can protect these wild horses for the future," he said.
Nevada is home to more than half the nearly 32,000 wild horses and burros still roaming 10 Western states. The BLM says the range can only sustain about 28,000 without interfering with other land uses.
Some 22,500 mustangs removed from the range are being held in federal holding facilities.
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