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burros and offers them for adoption.”
To.get the Virginia Horse Center from 1-81 take Exit 191 onto 1-64 West. Proceed to Exit 55 and go right on Route 11 North one tenth mile to Route 39 West: go left about one mile to the center entrance.
The Adopt-A-Horse Program began in 1973 in order to control the increasing populations of horse herds on federal lands. Prior to the late 1950’s, wild horses had been preyed upon by “mustangers,” people who cruelly rounded up the horses and sold them for slaughter. However, this activity was outlawed in 1971 when Congress passed the Wild Free-Roaming Horse and Burro Act. This law protect wild horses from extinction and preserves them as “living symbols of the historic and pioneer spirit of the West." Under federal protection, the wild horse herds increased rapidly since they have no natural predators.
The horses now compete for limited forage and water with native wildlife and domestic livestock that also graze public lands. In 1973, the government began removing excess
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