@article{ELizondo:230764,
      recid = {230764},
      author = {ELizondo, Vanessa and Fitzgerald, Timothy and Rucker,  Randal R.},
      title = {You Can’t Drag Them Away: An Economic Analysis of the Wild  Horse Burro Program},
      journal = {Journal of Agricultural and Resource Economics},
      address = {2016-01},
      number = {1835-2016-149559},
      pages = {24},
      year = {2016},
      abstract = {Since 1971 wild horses and burros living on federal land  have been legally protected, limiting
removal from the  range and stipulating restrictive conditions for transfer  to private ownership.
Periodic gathers prevent  overpopulation, though we find both political and  biological influences on
the probability and size of  gathers. Attempts to convey removed horses to private  owners are often
unsuccessful because of the relatively low  quality of some animals and contractual restrictions.
We  consider alternative policy regimes promoting the transfer  of additional animals; such reforms
could have reduced  program costs by as much as $452 million over the past  twenty-five years.},
      url = {http://ageconsearch.umn.edu/record/230764},
      doi = {https://doi.org/10.22004/ag.econ.230764},
}