California has a wild horse problem

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The article also mentioned that the Humane Society is suggesting mass birth control instead of horseacide....horsecaust?
Wait...horsecaust is a word?  No it's not, why is there no squiggly red line that's always there because I can't spell for sh**t?  

Why?

I would think it would be cheaper just to cull them down to a healthy level?

In fact couldn't California make money on either selling hunting licences or sell the meat?

they're largely in holding capacities, would probably be pretty boring to hunt.

my solution would be similar to the Humane Society's idea. Sterilise the captive horses and release them back to mate (futilely) with the wild population, which would control the population. Or stick less cattle on federal land, but eh, cows gotta cow.

Eh capturing and sterilizing them would probably be pretty difficult and expensive compared to just shooting them. They could donate the meat to somewhere that needs it.

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Why do we keep wild horses captive? We've destroyed their natural habitats, and apparently now it seems like a great idea to hunt them. Wild horses would be far genetically healthier than purebred horses with increasingly less genetic diversity.

Well wild horses in this case are not a natural species. The wild horse went extinct in the Americas thousands of years ago. These are just the descendants of domestic escapees.