Wyoming lawmakers would ask Congress to allow killing healthy, unadopted wild horses

Wyoming lawmakers would ask Congress to remove federal limits on managing wild horses and burros and let federal land managers kill healthy, unadopted animals or sell them for killing. The management request covers wild horses and burros. The killing and sale request covers healthy, unadopted animals handled by the Bureau of Land Management. Congress would have to pass the requested changes, including changes to federal funding rules.

Wyoming lawmakers would ask Congress to let anyone use helicopters or motor vehicles to capture or kill wild horses and burros. The request covers wild horses and burros on public lands and would apply to any person. Congress would have to pass the requested federal change.

Wyoming lawmakers would ask Congress either to fund federal horse slaughter inspectors or to let states pay inspectors to check horse meat. One option covers federal personnel who inspect horses for slaughter. The other covers state funded inspectors who check horse meat. Congress would have to pass one of the requested changes.