A U.S. District Court granted wild horse advocates the right to intervene in a case involving the management of horses on Wyoming land. The State of Wyoming brought the case against the Bureau of Land Management in order to seek management of the state’s wild horses. The wild horse advocates back the BLM in the suit, and will now be privy to the legal developments in the case. Ginger Katherens is with the Cloud Foundation– one of the advocacy groups now part of the lawsuit. She says Wyoming’s horses should be preserved on federal land not only for their beauty, but also for economic reasons. "The state benefits greatly from having populations of wild horses on public lands. They bring in tourist dollars. That’s why Wyoming tourism has actively promoted coming to the state of Wyoming to see wild horses," she says. Jim Magagna is with the Wyoming Stock Growers Association, a group that supports the state of Wyoming in the suit. He says that horses deplete grazing land and are currently
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