as published on The Rapid City Journal
“Given the ranch’s estimated population of more than 600 horses, Watt figures the two truckloads amount to only three days of feed…”
Donated hay bales are showing up at a South Dakota ranch where numerous wild horses have reportedly died of starvation-related causes.
The horses are at the rural Lantry ranch of the International Society for the Protection of Mustangs and Burros, in north-central South Dakota about 110 miles northeast of Rapid City.
According to a former employee who went public last week, a lack of control over the ranch’s ballooning horse population taxed the organization’s pastures and finances to a crisis point.
The former employee, Colleen Burns, said 30 or more horses have died since June for lack of grass, hay and veterinary care. Her photographic evidence shows badly emaciated horses, some dead and some dying, and…
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