{"id":28,"date":"2010-05-17T14:03:38","date_gmt":"2010-05-17T20:03:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/whoanm.org\/wordpress\/?p=28"},"modified":"2010-10-07T14:35:06","modified_gmt":"2010-10-07T20:35:06","slug":"wild-horses-are-livestock-county-backs-down","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/whoanm.org\/wordpress\/wild-horses-are-livestock-county-backs-down\/","title":{"rendered":"Wild Horses are Livestock?  County Backs Down"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Sandoval County Planning Departement recently proposed changes to the County&#8217;s\u00c2\u00a0Ordinances\u00c2\u00a0which included a new definition of livestock that would have resulted in the Placitas Wild Horses\u00c2\u00a0being defined as livestock, and\u00c2\u00a0thus being at immediate risk\u00c2\u00a0of\u00c2\u00a0capture and removal.\u00c2\u00a0 As has been the norm, this change was buried in the ordinance and it was only found with a careful and thorough review by WHOA.<\/p>\n<p>WHOA spoke out against the changes at the County Commission Meeting and submitted a legal opinion from our lawyer, essentially stating that the County&#8217;s proposed new definition of livestock was in legal conflict with that of the State&#8217;s and\u00c2\u00a0could therefore be\u00c2\u00a0successfully challenged in court.\u00c2\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Sandoval\u00c2\u00a0County has relented and County Attorney David Mathews\u00c2\u00a0stated this in an email to us:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;Brad (Stebleton, County Planner) changed this definition to mirror the state&#8217;s statute.\u00c2\u00a0 I apologize for missing this one in my review and we thank you bringing it to our attention.\u00c2\u00a0 We do not mention the wild horses specifically, but they do not fit the definition of livestock under the state or county version of the definition because they are not domesticated.&#8221;\u00c2\u00a0 \u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It seems to the County the herd of wild horses are strongly supported by the majority of Placitans.\u00c2\u00a0 They are part of what makes your community unique.&#8221; &#8230;. &#8220;We have received no negative comments about the horses and, therefore, believe protection of the wild horses is supported by your community.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sandoval County Planning Departement recently proposed changes to the County&#8217;s\u00c2\u00a0Ordinances\u00c2\u00a0which included a new definition of livestock that would have resulted in the Placitas Wild Horses\u00c2\u00a0being defined as livestock, and\u00c2\u00a0thus being at immediate risk\u00c2\u00a0of\u00c2\u00a0capture and removal.\u00c2\u00a0 As has been the norm, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/whoanm.org\/wordpress\/wild-horses-are-livestock-county-backs-down\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[19,30,91,26,10],"class_list":["post-28","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-placitas-wild-horses","tag-new-mexico","tag-placitas","tag-placitas-wild-horses","tag-slaughter-czar","tag-wild-horse-state-park"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/whoanm.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/whoanm.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/whoanm.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whoanm.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whoanm.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=28"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/whoanm.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/whoanm.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whoanm.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whoanm.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}