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JUAN FRANCISCO BLANCO
“What part of the government is responsible for the horses
and burros?” young Kuó asked.
“It’s the Bureau of Land Management. They control the land
the animals graze on. They say that gives them the right to
control all the animals the way they see fit. First, the Americans
killed off millions of bison. The only place you can see one is on a
few ranches, and an old United States coin - the buffalo nickel.
Now, it’s the horses and little burros they would like to kill off,”
Bardala informed them. “They round them up and take them to
a steel corral─a prison no less. Then they charge the American
taxpayers millions of dollars to feed them and care for them. Let
nature take care of them. It has for millions of years.”
“Ek Chuah, we were just going to drive the vehicles through
using the portal system to the Lehman’s Caves inside the Great
Basin National Park. Now, with this news, we know there are
horses needing our immediate help. The good news is they are
all in one small spot; they will all be in steel corrals. It would only
be a question of freeing them then getting them transported to
the Mayan Portal System,” Tital said, still trying to think of how
to complete a plan.
“The closest Portal door is this one, the one we are standing
in front of right now. It already leads back to Vivia,” said
Jonathan.
“Do you remember calling your horses before, when you
needed them?” Ek Chuah asked Tital and Bardala.
“Yes, I remember,” Bardala spoke up.
“It has to do with distance. Jonathan, what is the distance
between Mesa Verde and Los Lunas? Use point to point
distance, not by the highway,” Ek Chuah told him.
“About six hundred and ten kilometers.” Jonathan replied.