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Far away as new york. help save america s wild horses. reporter: the horses are at the center of a tug of war between the u.s. government chasing them down with helicopters and animal rights groups who want it stopped. the round-ups of the wild horses and burrows s is a true holocaust of the animal world. we can t let one, say the horse, impact everybody else by taking all the feed, all the water, do damage to that habitat. reporter: the disagreement is clear cut. the bureau of land management, blm, a charged with caring for and managing nearly 40,000 horses and burros roaming on 26 million acres of the west. but while this federal land, your land, was set aside for the horses, they don t have free rein. the land is considered multiuse. wildlife, live stock, ....
Clear cut. the bureau of land management is charged with caring for and manage nearly 40,000 horses and burrows roaming on 26 million acres of the west. but while this federal land was set aside for the horses, they don t have free reign. the land is considered multiuse. life stock, recreationists, mining interests, whatever. reporter: the blm insists it must reduce herd sizes because the land can t support the numbers. this ain t kentucky blue grass. reporter: so it holds roundups. last year the goal, remove 12,000 horses. that s right, 12,000. and take them to holding pens. this is our land. we want the horses on here most of us. reporter: armed with cameras and recorders, the activists document what they see as brutal round ups. here a helicopter chases one single burrow. ....
If you think back may 29th allan jackson, george strait, jimmy buffett put on a concert that was later turned into a cd. you can remember it that way. i think the explosions are beginning to bring this thing down. as we watch this happen, what s going to replace this space? well, that s to be determined at this point because what the city of irving want to do, they want to develop it into a multiuse complex there. so it s pretty much undecided what s going to happen. the state department of transportation is going to lease the site for about $15 million a year and it will occupy it as a construction location for up to ten years. the city has the right to relocate the staging area for a redevelopment opportunity. you have to wonder what the guys who hold the records that they made, with just 20 seconds left here, tony dorsett, t.o., ....