Sunday, August 19, 2012

Horses fall victim to hard times and dry times on the range

New York Times: The land is parched, the fields are withering and thousands of the nation's horses are being left to fend for themselves on the dried range, abandoned by people who can no longer afford to feed them. They have been dropping dead in the Navajo reservation in the Southwest, where neighbors are battling neighbors and livestock for water, an inherently scant resource on tribal land. They have been found stumbling through state parks in Missouri, in backyards and along country roads in Illinois, and...

URL: http://www.nytimes.com/2012/08/19/us/horses-fall-victim-to-hard-times-and-dry-times-on-the-range.html
Enclosure: http://graphics8.nytimes.com/images/2012/08/19/us/HORSES-1/HORSES-1-articleLarge.jpg

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