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WEST BEND, Wis. — Chances are rare to lasso a horse and a $1,000 payday at the same time, but the opportunity will knock Friday and Saturday, Sept. 10 and 11, at the Washington County Fair Park in West Bend.
Of course, such a sweet deal is bound to have a hitch — in this case, the horse will be wild and, if you’d rather have a burro, well, that will be wild, too.
The occasion will be a wild horse and burro placement event that the federal Bureau of Land Management will host. It will feature about 60 excess animals rustled up from western rangelands as the bureau implements the Wild-Free Roaming Horses and Burros Act that Congress passed in 1971.
The law deems wild horses and burros to be “living symbols of the historic and pioneer spirit of the West.” It saddles the BLM and the U.S. Forest Service with the responsibility of managing and protecting herds in their respective jurisdictions within areas where wild horses and burros were found roaming in 1971.
The bureau offers such animals for adoption or purchase at events throughout the year,” said Stephanie Carman, the BLM’s acting manager of the Northeastern States District.
“Many of them have become excellent pleasure, show, or workhorses,” Carmen said.
Adoptions and sales will be done by appointment only from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. Sept. 10 and 8 a.m. to 1 p.m. Sept. 11 at the fairgrounds near Milwaukee. On both days, placements will occur in one-hour increments, with five appointments an hour.
Potential buyers and adopters must disclose their top three preferred time slots when they make appointments, the BLM says.
The bureau’s Adoption Incentive Program was designed to help improve rangeland health in overpopulated herd management areas in Western states and to save taxpayer costs for animals held at off-range holding facilities.
Through the program, qualified adopters are eligible to receive $500 within 60 days of adoption and $500 upon title issuance for an untrained wild horse or burro. The incentive is available for all untrained animals eligible for adoption, with an adoption fee of $25 per animal.
Animals that are more than 10 years old or younger and who were unsuccessfully adopted to new homes three times may be sold. BLM staff will be available to identify those animals to qualified buyers. Purchasers will receive immediate ownership of the animals.
Appointments can be made via email at BLM_ES_NSDO_WHB@blm.gov.
More information about the bureau’s Wild Horse and Burro program is available on the agency’s website.

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