At least 150 feral horses roam Cumberland Island National Seashore.
Tourist sites highlight them. Visitors seek them out for photos. Artists celebrate them in paintings. The combination of island mystique and equine charisma is hard to resist.
Yet Cumberland’s horses are not universally embraced. In fact, Athens-based Attorney Hal Wright has a message many of the island’s equine enthusiasts don’t want to hear: “Cumberland is bad for horses and horses are bad for Cumberland.”
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