The Corolla Wild Horses Protection Act (H.R. 126) is a bill introduced to the United States Congress 113, where it passes the United States House of Representatives. The bill will affect wild horses living in North Carolina.
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The Banker Horse is a type of wild horse ( Equus ferus caballus ) that lives on the islands of the North Carolina Outer Banks. It's small, strong, and has a benign temperament. Derived from the Spanish pet horse and possibly brought to America in the 16th century, the ancestral foundation's bloodstock may have become wild after the shipwreck survived or abandoned on the islands by one of the exploratory expeditions led by Lucas VÃÆ'¡zquez de AyllÃÆ'³n or Sir Richard Grenville. The population is found on Ocracoke Island, Shackleford Banks, Currituck Banks, and at Rachel Carson Estuarine Sanctuary.
About 400 Bankers inhabiting a narrow and long barrier island in North Carolina's Outer Banks. These islands are sedimentary sediments offshore separated from land by bodies of water such as estuaries or sounds. The islands can reach up to 30 miles (48 km) from the coast; most of the width is less than a mile (1.6 km). Vegetation is rare and mainly consists of coarse grass and some dwarf trees. Each island in the chain is separated from the next by the tidal inlet.
As a consequence of the Corolla's development in the 1980s, the horses at Currituck Banks were in touch with humans more often. In 1989, eleven Bankers had been killed by cars on the newly built Highway 12. That same year, the Corolla Wild Horse Fund, a nonprofit organization, was created to protect horses from human disturbances. As a result of his efforts, the rest of the herds were moved to a more remote part of the island, where they were fenced to 1,800 hectares (7.28 km 2 ; 2.81 sqÃ, mi) combined federal and private land donated. The Corolla commanders announced the site as a horse-drawn horse. The population is now managed by adopting children, both fillies and colts gelded. Conflict over wild horse preservation continues until 2012. In 2013, legislation was introduced to help preserve the herd in Carrituck.
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Terms/Elements of the bill
This summary is largely based on a summary provided by the Congressional Research Service, a public domain source.
The Corolla Horse Protection Law will direct the United States Interior Secretary to enter into agreements with the Corolla Wild Horse Fund, Currituck County and the state of North Carolina to provide roaming free wild management in and around the Currituck National Wildlife Area.
The bill requires that such a treaty: (1) allow a herd of no more than 130 wild horses roaming freely within and around the Place of Refuge; (2) providing cost-effective horses management; and (3) providing the introduction of a small number of free roaming wild horses from herd in the Cape Lookout National Seashore as necessary to maintain the genetic viability of herds in and around the Protection; and (4) provides that the Corolla Wild Horse Fund will pay certain costs related to the health, maintenance, transfer and placement of such horses.
The bill would prohibit any removal of horses from Seashore to be introduced at the Shelter, except with the Foundation's approval for Shackleford Horses Inc. and consistent with a memorandum of understanding between the National Park Service and the Foundation and the management plan for the Shackleford Banks Horse Herd.
Finally, the bill would prohibit everything in the bill from being interpreted as creating the responsibility of the United States for any damages caused by wild horses free roaming to any person or property situated within or outside the boundaries of Protection.
Procedural history
House
The Corolla Wild Horse Protection Act was introduced to the United States House of Representatives on 3 January 2013 by Rep. Walter B. Jones, Jr. (R-NC). This was referred to the United States House Committee on Natural Resources and the United States Natural Resources Subcommittee on Fisheries, Wildlife, Oceans and Insular Affairs. It passes through the House of Representatives on June 3, 2013 through a voting vote.
Senate
The Corolla Wild Horse Protection Act was accepted in the United States Senate on 4 June 2013.
See also
- Bill list at the United States Congress 113
Notes/References
External links
- Library of Congress - Thomas H.R. 126
- beta.congress.gov H.R. 126
- GovTrack.us H.R. 126
- OpenCongress.org H.R. 126 on Archive.is (archived 2013-06-24)
- WashingtonWatch.com H.R. 126
- House Republicans' page on H.R. 126 in the Library of Congress Web Archives (archived 2013-10-09)
- Congressional Budget Office Report
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