The Bureau of Land Management has captured 246 mares and 194 studs through Monday, the fifth day of a planned 1,600-horse helicopter roundup on the Chokecherry, Eagle and Mt. Elinor Herd Management Areas near Pioche, Nev.
Five wild horses have been put down for "pre-existing conditions," according to BLM: a mare ... Read More
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The Bureau of Land Management captured 40 mares and 40 studs on Thursday, the first day of a planned 1,600-horse helicopter roundup on the Chokecherry, Eagle and Mt. Elinor Herd Management Areas near Pioche, Nev. No deaths were reported.
The BLM estimates the wild horse population of the combined three ... Read More
As published by The Christian Science Monitor
DESATOYA MOUNTAINS, NEV. -- When the first wild horses come into view, thundering through high desert sagebrush, it’s easy to imagine they’re in the American West of 150 years ago. This part of Nevada is desolate and beautiful: massive plains that stretch for ... Read More
The U.S. Forest Service has dropped from $25 to $1 the price for all remaining wild horses at its Double Devil Corrals at Modoc National Forest.
As of Jan. 6, 180 wild horses remained ranging in age from months-old foals to more than 21 years of age. The agency reduced the ... Read More
The Bureau of Land Management on Sunday completed its removal of all of the wild horses from the Seaman and White River Herd Areas south of Ely, Nev.
In 2008, BLM decided to allow no wild horses on the two Herd Areas, which total 475,100 acres, "based on analysis ... Read More
The Bureau of Land Management will begin capturing and removing 1,600 wild horses in a helicopter roundup on the Chokecherry, Eagle and Mt. Elinor Herd Management Areas near Pioche, Nev., as soon as Monday.
The agency also plans to treat an additional 50 mares with the fertility control vaccine GonaCon-Equine then ... Read More