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Day: October 10, 2009

Salazar wants to move West’s wild horses east

By MATTHEW DALY (AP) WASHINGTON — Thousands of mustangs that now roam the West would be moved to preserves in the Midwest and East under a new Interior Department plan to protect wild horse herds and the rangelands that support them. Interior Secretary Ken Salazar said Wednesday the plan would not require killing any wild horses. Interior Department officials had warned in recent months that slaughtering some of the 69,000 wild horses and burros under federal control might be necessary to combat rising costs of maintaining them. Nearly 37,000 wild horses and burros roam in Nevada, California,

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Bill has money for Kanas bio lab, but with a catch

WASHINGTON – Congressional negotiators agreed Wednesday to allow the Homeland Security Department to spend federal money planning and designing a foot-and-mouth research lab in Kansas, but they want more study on its safety before allowing money to be used for its construction. A Homeland Security Department spending bill approved by a House and Senate conference committee includes $32 million for the National Bio and Agro-Defense Facility planned for Manhattan, Kan. The negotiators also asked for studies to prove that the lab can operate safely and tied construction money to that request. The House wanted to withhold all

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Watch Highlights from the 2009 Built Ford Tough AQHYA World Championship Show this Month on America’s Horse TV

America’s Horse, October 8, 2009 – Meet some of the stars and relive a few memories from the 2009 Built Ford Tough AQHYA World Championship Show on America’s Horse TV this month. Highlights from the series that began October 5 include Wins Gato Quixote and Chris Duhadway of Colorado; Texan Reed Kyle and his AQHA Professional Horseman dad, Pete; 10-year-old halter exhibitor Ryan Carey of Texas; Korry Bailey, a working cow horse exhibitor from Tennessee; the highest trail score in history; and two sisters from Ohio, Kathryn and Mary Frances Gorsuch, who each won world championships. The

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