The Bureau of Land Management has approved an update to the Fifteenmile Herd Management Area, increasing its "Appropriate Management Level," as well as plans to capture and remove about 600 wild horses from the HMA in Wyoming.
The AML for Fifteenmile is now set at 100-230 wild horses. Previously, the agency ... Read More
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As published by E&E News
A top Interior Department official said the agency will now begin executing a plan to transfer the Bureau of Land Management's Washington, D.C.-based headquarters to Colorado after the conclusion of a congressional review period passed without objections from lawmakers.
Cole Rojewski, director of Interior's Office of ... Read More
As published by CBC News
Volunteers quietly track throngs of wild horses through the rugged mountain passes of western Alberta. Armed with dart guns, they search for the mares among the herd before silently taking aim.
For the past 4½ years, teams of trackers have canvassed a 490-square-kilometre area in the foothills near ... Read More
As published by The Charlotte Observer
The wild horses roaming North Carolina’s Outer Banks are known for being unpredictable and even dangerous — and this reputation only adds to the mystery why they’re often seen patiently giving rides to big, gawky birds.
Proof of this phenomenon was ... Read More
As published by Las Vegas Sun
Reorganizing the Bureau of Land Management and moving a sizable contingent of employees from the nation’s capital to the Western United States, federal officials say, will save the government money and connect the bureau’s workers more with the land they oversee.... Read More
As published by White Mountain Independent
There has been no update from the U.S. Forest Service regarding the ongoing investigation into the deaths of 11 Heber Wild Horses in the Apache-Sitgreaves National Forests in Arizona. But horse advocates have not given up in their efforts to hold the Forest ... Read More