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dead it was laying
stretched out in the sun.”
Oland, who is now retired
from the landscaping
business, spends , time
showing friends and visitors
his adopted “Eastern”
mustangs. “I expect I’d do it
all over again, but I won’t be
adopting any more —getting
too old,” he chuckled.
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Oland 'became the official
owner : of his adopted
mustangs. He received the
Certificates of Title for the
wild horses from BLM’s
Roger Hildebeidel, Eastern
States Director. .
Recent legislation per
mitted BLM to give title for
up to four aminals a year to
adopters who provided at
least 1 year of humane
treatment and care.
LARGE
Previously, the animals
were wards of the Federal
Government for their
lifetime.
The BLM administers the
Adopt-A-Horse program as a
partial solution to the
problem of overpopulation
among wild horse and burro
herds on public rangelands.
The herd sizes have been on
the increase since the horses
were protected by the 1971
Wild Free-Roaming Horse
and Burro Act.
Since the program was
initiated, the BLM has
placed about 20,000 horses
and burros in new homes in
47 states.
Oland was the first person
east of the Mississippi River
to accept and care for
mustangs under the adoption
program. And now most
fittingly, he is the first
Easterner to “own” the wild
horses that gallop proudly
across his rolling
pasturefields in Maryland.
Do' the horses dream of
then- old rangeland a con
tinent away from their
present home? Perhaps
but nightmares of survival
are probably easily
forgotten as the mustangs
graze under the watchful eye
of their - benefactor, Millard
Oland.
For information on the
adoption program, write:
Adopt-A-Horse, Department
634-H, Consumer In
formation Center, Pueblo,
Colorado 81009.
At 65, Millard Oland of Damascus, Maryland, enjoys watching his wild
mustangs. He adopted four of the horses in 1974 through the Bureau of Land
Managements Adopt-A-Horse program, and just recently received their official
Certificates of Title—he was the first Eastener to accept and “own” the wild
horses.
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The wild mustangs have produced offspring since their arrival in 1974. This
mother and daughter were both born on the Oland farm but are still “wild”,
according to Oland.
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