All the wild horses

From the Salt Lake Tribune: The U.S. Bureau of Land Management is struggling to pay for the upkeep of 30,000 wild horses and burros in captivity, and hasn't figured out how to deal with the animals in Utah and across the West. The Government Accountability Office, noting the $21 million spent last year to tend to the wild horses on and off the range, says BLM, to live up to federal law, must start culling the herds through euthanasia, adoption or sale to protect rangelands from overgrazing.

But this story may have a happy ending, according to The Washington Post: Madeleine Pickens, wife of billionaire T. Boone Pickens, has made known her intentions to adopt most or all of the horses and burros now kept in federal holding pens.