RENO, Nev. (News 4 & Fox 11) \u2014 Next year marks the United States of America’s 250th birthday \u2014 there is a massive, yearlong celebration planned for the country’s semi quincentennial. <\/p>\n
In the buildup to America 250, we’ll be running stories every few weeks highlighting what makes America and specifically Nevada so special.<\/p>\n
Our Amazing America 250 series begins with an unlikely and sometimes controversial tourist attraction. Nevada is home to the nation’s largest population of wild horses.<\/p>\n
It’s estimated there are some 38,000 or so mustangs roaming the Silver State<\/a>, far more than any other state in the union. They’re an iconic symbol of the American West, drawing tourists from all over the globe who come specifically to catch a glimpse.<\/p>\n Mostly descendants of domesticated horses brought by Spanish explorers in the 1500s, the horses are at times controversial, with some critical of their impact on the native wildlife and plants<\/a>. <\/p>\n The federal government’s regular helicopter roundups to cull the populations<\/a> have drawn the ire of wild horse advocates. <\/p>\n But northern Nevadans are pretty used to living alongside them. Inmates even train them while incarcerated in Nevada’s prisons<\/a>, breaking them to be adopted out, keeping the Western tradition alive.<\/a><\/p>\n WATCH our first installment of Amazing America 250, highlighting Nevada’s wild horse population:<\/p>\n Amazing America 250: Nevada’s wild mustangs an iconic symbol of the West<\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"RENO, Nev. (News 4 & Fox 11) \u2014 Next year marks the United States of America’s 250th birthday…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":358543,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[23,3,21,19,22,20,25,24],"class_list":["post-358542","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-united-states","tag-america","tag-news","tag-united-states","tag-united-states-of-america","tag-unitedstates","tag-unitedstatesofamerica","tag-us","tag-usa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/358542","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=358542"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/358542\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/358543"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=358542"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=358542"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=358542"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}