
Editor’s note: We first wrote about Kathleen Hayden’s efforts to restore the Coyote Canyon heritage herd of wild horses locally in January 2013. Read article. But in July 2013, she was served with an eviction notice and forced to give up the last descendants of San Diego’s wild horses. Despite a 2012 support letter from Congressman Darrell Issa and a 2014 letter from a genetics expert confirming that the horses are rare and of historic significance as descendants of Spanish Colonial horses, the U.S. Bureau of Land Management has done nothing to protect or return them--and now is not turning over the deed of transfer, Hayden says Now she has penned an open letter to the House Committee on Natural Resources Chairman Rob Bishop questioning the legality of the transfer.
Dear Chairman Bishop,
Please investigate the transfer of the BLM Federal CA Coyote Canyon Wild Horse Herd area (20,000 acres) to CA Anza Borrego Desert State Park. In response to Ca State Senator Joel Anderson's request for the deed, Parks claim it doesn't exist.
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