The Bureau of Land Management today welcomed the findings and recommendations of a 14-member committee of the National Academy of Sciences (NAS) that reviewed the BLM's wild horse and burro management issues over a two-year period. The resulting report, entitled "Using Science to Improve the BLM Wild Horse and Burro Program: A Way Forward," was commissioned by the BLM, which requested the NAS to perform and prepare an independent assessment of numerous scientific-related issues related to the agency's management of wild horses and burros on Western public rangelands.