So how about this : " Because the horses were seen as " trespass livestock " the U . S . Grazing Service, which was established to administer the TGA, directly hired contractors to remove them from public land, but with the outbreak of WWII, that practice ceased ."
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Wyman first published his book in 1945, so what he wrote does not necessarily apply to what happened after WWII . I have found no sources that say that after the War, ( right after which the grazing service became the BLM ) the BLM did anything but encourage and assist in the removal of horses, which were, until 1971, under the jurisdiction of the States . "'