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This is a follow-up to a response I just posted to Oddfarm's critique of the BLM mustang adoption program. I wrote to a contact I have in the BLM program, she forwarded it to her contact, here is the response:

Susie_Stokke@xxxxxxx wrote:

> Your email was forwarded to me by Glenna Eckel in our Winnemucca, Nevada
> field office.
>
> BLM does not let anyone who has adopted in the past to have 1 or more
> mustangs for free. Under the regulations, an adopter may not have more
> than 4 untitled mustangs unless prior approval has been obtained which
> verifies the adopter has the facilities necessary to safely and humanely
> care for more than 4 untitled animals at any one time.
>
> You may be referring to a partnership program with the Mustang Heritage
> Foundation. BLM is piloting a trainer incentive adoption program
>  with the
> MHF. Under this program, trainers (who apply and meet BLM's rigorous
> standards), may train 1 or more mustangs each year. Trainers may then
> adopt the animal they have trained to someone who can provide the animal
> with a good home. Adopters adopting a trained animal from an incentive
> trainer must also meet BLM's rigourous standards. These adopters must also
> pay BLM the standard adoption fee ($125).
>
> I hope this information is helpful.
>
>
> ----- Forwarded by Susie Stokke/NVSO/NV/BLM/DOI on 04/29/2008 04:22 PM
> -----

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