{"id":69700,"date":"2017-07-24T12:34:09","date_gmt":"2017-07-24T18:34:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/congressional-committee-votes-to-allow-destruction-of-wild-horses\/"},"modified":"2017-07-24T18:34:09","modified_gmt":"2017-07-24T18:34:09","slug":"congressional-committee-votes-to-allow-destruction-of-wild-horses","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/congressional-committee-votes-to-allow-destruction-of-wild-horses\/","title":{"rendered":"Congressional committee votes to allow destruction of wild horses"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><figure class=\"wp-block-image naviga-inline-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/imengine.public.prod.dur.navigacloud.com\/?uuid=bc96315e-689e-4cfc-8102-28eb571b1233&amp;function=cover&amp;type=preview&amp;source=false&amp;width=2000\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1248\" alt=\"Two young wild horses play while grazing in Reno, Nev., in 2010. The House Appropriations Committee voted July 20 to reverse a ban on destroying healthy wild horses and burros that was contained in a spending bill signed into law by President Donald Trump in early May.\" class=\"naviga-image\" loading=\"lazy\"><figcaption><span class=\"caption\">Two young wild horses play while grazing in Reno, Nev., in 2010. The House Appropriations Committee voted July 20 to reverse a ban on destroying healthy wild horses and burros that was contained in a spending bill signed into law by President Donald Trump in early May.<\/span><span class=\"credit\">Associated Press file<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/p><p>A Congressional committee vote on Tuesday amounts to a death warrant for the mustangs and wild burros that roam America\u2019s rangeland, an advocate for the animals said.<\/p>\n<p>The House Appropriations Committee voted to reverse a ban on destroying healthy wild horses and burros that was contained in a spending bill signed into law by President Donald Trump in early May.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cLet\u2019s be clear: House Appropriations Committee members just signed a death warrant for America\u2019s mustangs, and it will lead to the wholesale destruction of these irreplaceable national treasures,\u201d said Suzanne Roy, director of the American Wild Horse Campaign in a news release.<\/p>\n<p>Read the rest of the story at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.denverpost.com\/2017\/07\/19\/wild-horse-destruction-vote-passes\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">http:\/\/www.denverpost.com\/2017\/07\/19\/wild-horse-destruction-vote-passes\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>wild populations are too large and herds need to be culled<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":69701,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[28],"naviga_topic":[],"class_list":["post-69700","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-headlines"],"acf":[],"author_name":"dh_admin","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69700","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=69700"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69700\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/69701"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=69700"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=69700"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=69700"},{"taxonomy":"naviga_topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/naviga_topic?post=69700"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}