Walter B. Jones: “I rise tonight to share with my colleagues an important editorial from a newspaper in my district, the Carteret County…”

“I rise tonight to share with my colleagues an important editorial from a newspaper in my district, the Carteret County News-Times. The editorial, titled ``Listen Up, National Park Service,'' I submit for the Record demonstrates the importance of the Shackleford Banks Wild Horses Protection Act, a bill I have introduced to save a group of wild horses in North Carolina. As the editorial says, the wild horses of Shackleford Banks are believed to be descendents of Spanish mustangs who swam ashore after Spanish galleons wrecked off the coast of North Carolina centuries ago. For years these beautiful horses freely roamed the 3,000 acre barrier islands without trouble until the North Carolina Park Service took control of the area to form the Cape Lookout National Seashore in the 1970's. Today, the horses are threatened by the National Park Service, which seems to be more concerned with managing the vegetation on the island than the horses. They have already euthanized many of these beautiful animals for questionable reasons. We must not allow the National Park Service to continue to destroy these horses.”