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Chuck John of Eugene halter-breaks a young Appaloosa, one of 39 wild horses
in Lane County this month.
Photo by Scott Mabrn
up for adoption
Program gives horses new homes
By Scott Maben
Of the Kmerald
Twenty wild horses from
eastern Oregon were sold Satur
day and Sunday at a temporary
Oregon Bureau of Land
Management “Adopt-A-llorse”
center west of Eugene.
BLM began the adoption pro
gram two years after the Wild
Free-Roaming Horse and Burro
Act was passed in 1971. The act
arose from public concern about
wild horses and burros com
peting with cattle for western
rangeland.
In an attempt to control the
animals’ populations, the BLM
gathers hundreds of horses and
burros in eastern Oregon and
sells them, according to Don
Wilbur, Eugene district BLM
wild horse specialist.
Wilbur said horses brought to
Eugene this weekend are the
first available for adoption in
the southern Willamette Valley
for three years. The horses were
rounded up in the W'arm
Springs Heard Management
Area (southeast of Mt. Hood) in
Jan uary.
Private citizens from as far as
100 miles away visited the
center on Greenhill Road both
days. Horses sold for $125 each.
“We have some pregnant
mares, studs. . .a little bit of
everything. These are very
adoptable horses,” because of
their age, Wilbur said.
None of the horses is older
than two, he explained.
Interested adopters are pre
screened by BLM officials.
Wilbur said applicants must
have adequate facilities —
available food and water sup
plies. a barn with high-walled
stalls and pasture acreage suffi
cient for exercise.
“We want to ensure the peo
ple are genuine in terms of be
ing able to take care of the
horse. That’s the bottom line.”
Wilbur said.
BLM limits adopters to four
horses or burros per year to pre
vent illegal marketing of the
animals. Each is given a IJ.S.
freeze brand that usually keeps
them from showing up in auc
tion yards, Wilbur said.
After a year of “proper care."
BLM will grant title to the
owner, after which the owner is
free to sell or keep the horses,
he said.
Although a few isolated
poaching incidents did occur
when the program was young,
Wilbur said citizens generally
leave the animals alone, a likely
result of BLM’s population
controls.
“1 think I’d rather see them go
to loving homes than slaughter
houses," said University jour
nalism student Tia Politi, who
owns a half quarterhorse/half
Welsh pony and boards two
other horses.
Although Politi believes
BLM’s adoption program is
beneficial to the survival of the
wild horses she said she objects
to placing priority on cattle over
the horses, which she describes
as “endangered tribes.”
Pol it i also cautioned against
adopting one of the horses on
the basis of hoping to find an in
stant playmate or pet.
“You’ve really got to know
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what you're doing with a wild
animal like this.” she said.
People adopt the horses for
various uses, including riding
and packing, Wilbur said. He
noted the animals art; “ex
cellent with kids.”
"These horses will tame
down real easy,” he said.
“We’ve found that the best
quality for working with wild
horses isn't necessarily ex
perince. It's patience. People
vvho’ve taken things slow and
easy, who work with horses
everyday, end up with the best
animals.” Wilbur said
More than 60,000 horses and
burros have found homes dur
ing the 15-year history of the
program.
Provided there are some left
over, the ” Adopt-A-Horse"
center will be open again next
weekend at 88930 Creenhill.
Officials at seminar
debate tax money use
By Steve Edwards
Of th«* Kmrrald
Should Oregon's tax dollars go toward building prisons
or keeping schools open?
This was one question facing a panel of local and state of
ficials Saturday in Eugene at a day-long seminar on the
justice system in Oregon.
The seminar was sponsored by the Innovative Educa
tional Development Program.
Panelists did not see the issue in terms of a conflict over
funding. Rather they felt the relationship between the correc
tional system and the educational system is cooperative, not
competitive, according to Mary Byrne,the assistant principal
at North Eugene High School.
Sen. Rod Monroe. l)-Portland, advocated aggressive
education from a young age to help reduce crime in the
future.
Evidence is “overwhelming" that such programs as
kindergarten-age education are successful in improving
chances of law-abiding lifestyles, he said.
Monroe also suggested "counseling for (students of) all
ages and advocated a greater freedom of counselors "to
counsel."
He suggested a more aggressive intervention in the cases
of obviously troubled students, saying one needn't "wait un
til kids gel to junior high to know" which are going to have
problems.
Eugene attorney Ed Eadelev questioned this. One must
wonder 'if (Richard) Nixon's third-grade teacher would have
known he would authorize burglary" and participate in the
Watergate coverup, Eadelev said.
Doug Densmore of the Oregon State Parole Board said in
addition to needing "more space" for housing criminals, the
state system needs some reorganization.
Densmore said in summary: "Everybody agrees there’s a
problem; nobody's quite sure how to deal with it."
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