A total of 129 wild horses remain for sale at $1 apiece from the U.S. Forest Service at its Double Devil Corrals, located at Modoc National Forest.
The number of horses had fallen to 108 by Jan. 28, but Forest Service staff said numbers in the corrals have fluctuated depending on ... Read More
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The Bureau of Land Management is now formally referring to wild horses and burros as an "existential threat" to federal lands, mirroring acting BLM chief William Perry Pendley's controversial characterization of growing herd sizes.
The language is included in BLM's budget justification, released ... Read More
As Return to Freedom continues to be involved in policy discussions affecting wild horse and burro management, we are deeply concerned with suggested rule changes to the National Environmental Policy Act – some of which could limit public comments about roundups or even exclude management options like roundups from going ... Read More
The Bureau of Land Management's helicopter roundup on the Chokecherry, Eagle and Mt. Elinor Herd Management Areas near Pioche, Nev., has ended with 1,704 wild horses captured and 23 dead.
Twenty wild horses were put down for "pre-existing conditions," according to BLM, including four on Friday: a 1-year-old bay stud with ... Read More
The Bureau of Land Management has captured 1,656 wild horses through Thursday, the 35th day of a planned helicopter roundup on the Chokecherry, Eagle and Mt. Elinor Herd Management Areas near Pioche, Nev.
On Thursday, a 5-year-old bay stud died of a broken neck during sorting -- just two days after a ... Read More
The Bureau of Land Management has captured 1,457 wild horses through Monday, the 32nd day of a planned 1,600-horse helicopter roundup on the Chokecherry, Eagle and Mt. Elinor Herd Management Areas near Pioche, Nev.
Unusually, the BLM announced that was counting "all of last year's weanable foals ... as adults," resulting ... Read More