Why can't they just leave the horses alone?

Why can't they just leave the horses alone?
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answer:It surely cannot be easy these days being Joan Guilfoyle, the (relatively) new director of the Bureau of Land Management’s Wild Horse and Burro Program. On the one hand she works for a federal agency, the Interior Department, which is largely beholden to the powerful industries it is supposed to regulate. And on the other hand, she is responsible, under federal law and policy, for ensuring the survival and management of the nation’s wild horses at a time when relentless political and economic forces threaten to decimate the herds. http://www.theatlantic.com/national/archive/2012/05/the-feds-unnecessarily-round-up-wild-horses-then-complain-about-costs/256527/
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