Eighty-six thousand. This is the number of horses predicted to be roaming the plains of the Western United States after the foaling in 2017. While most people know about the wild horse population in the western United States they don’t know that the population has exceeded its carrying capacity and it is causing a problem for people who are trying to manage the herds.This capacity is nearly triple the amount that can be truly supported on these public lands.With no true natural predators to keep the population balanced,so it is passed on to the United States government. Methods today include taking a small number of the population out of the areas they live in and auctioning them off, which only amounts to a couple thousand total animals
