Wild horse plan rekindles cattle grazing debate

By MARTIN GRIFFITH Associated Press Writer RENO, Nev. (AP) - A new federal proposal to manage wild horses is rekindling debate over another fixture of the Western range: cattle. Interior Secretary Ken Salazar proposed last week moving thousands of mustangs to preserves in the Midwest and East to protect horse herds and the rangelands that support them. Interior Department officials say slaughtering some of the 69,000 wild horses and burros under federal control might be necessary to halt rising costs of maintaining them. Many horse defenders and others who had been working to save the romantic symbols of the American West and might have been expected to welcome Salazar's solution instead...

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