The Bureau of Land Management (BLM) wants you to adopt a wild horse and it will pay you $1,000 to do so. The BLM's Wild Horse and Burro Program helps protect and manage America's wild horses and burros who roam 26.9 million acres of public lands.

The Bureau of Land Management (BLM) has released their plan for the “management,” aka the capture, sale, and slaughter, of American wild horses and burros, and as one might expect from the BLM based on their history, these plans are extreme and dangerous for the survival of these majestic creatures.

There are currently more than 70,000 free-ranging mustangs in the U.S., according to the America's Mustang program. Mustang numbers declined dramatically in the 20th century as the horses were killed and captured for a variety of reasons, including for human and dog food, America's Mustang program notes.

(Note: It has been and remains the policy of the BLM not to sell or send any wild horses or burros to slaughter.) Proceeds from the sales of wild horses and burros are used for the BLM's wild horse and burro adoption program, as directed by Congress.