Nevada’s horse giveaway plan under fire
By Benjamin Spillman, Reno Gazette-Journal
Opponents of Nevada’s plan to give away nearly 3,000 publicly owned, free range horses in the mountains east of Reno are cranking up the legal, political and financial pressure against the plan.
On Monday Lance Gilman, a Storey County Commissioner who helped recruit Walmart, Tesla, Google and others to the industrial park he founded in the horses’ habitat, made an impassioned plea to Gov. Brian Sandoval to tell the state’s agriculture department to abandon the idea