A wild horse researcher is concerned a survey of the Chilcotin wild horse population, planned by the Ministry of Forests, Land and Natural Resources and the Tsilhqot'in National Government, may result in a cull. Wayne McCrory, who has been studying the Chilcotin horses for 15 years, said wild horses have been blamed for overgrazing in the region in the past. "There's been a lot of scapegoating going over the whole history of the wild horses, which has led to most of them being eradicated," McCrory said,He estimates somewhere between 600 and 1,000 wild horses live in the Chilcotin. Black Stallion and wild horses at Chilko Lake, Nemaiah Valley. An Alberta cull in 2015 prompted an independent study by McCrory of how important wild horses are to their respective ecosystems.

Source: CBC News January 19, 2019 18:00 UTC