Debate Over Wild Horses

{Harlan, Kentucky}…County Humane Society President Marcella Chadwick says Sequoia Energy wants a pack of wild horses moved off a former surface mining site, but Chadwick says her group and the landowners who leased the coal rights to the mining company want the animals to be left alone. Chadwick says there are about 80 to 100 horses in the area, and the animals have been around there for decades. Chadwick says an official from Sequoia contacted the Humane Society about three weeks ago to seek help in moving the horses, which the company says are disturbing vegetation that has been planted as part of the company's federally-mandated reclamation of the surface mine site.