As published by E&E NewsSome private landowners contracted by the Bureau of Land Management to care for tens of thousands of federally protected wild horses and burros say they are no longer getting paid due to the partial government shutdown.But they ... Read More
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U.S. District Judge James Donato on Thursday granted the U.S. Forest's Service request for a stay of proceedings in lawsuits filed by Return to Freedom and other advocates to stop the unrestricted sale of wild horses captured last fall at the Devils Garden Wild Horse Territory.
The Forest Service made the request ... Read More
The Bureau of Land Management has announced plans to go forward with a roundup of about 80 percent of the wild horses from the beloved herd at the Onaqui Mountain Herd Management Area in Utah.
BLM estimates that the population of the herd will be at about 586 wild horses by ... Read More
The Bureau of Land Management was set to begin on Tuesday a bait-and-trap operation to remove up to 20 burros that it says are "damaging private property, land and crops" outside the Hickison Summit Burro Range Herd Management Area southeast of Austin, Nevada.
According to BLM planning documents, a private ... Read More
The U.S. Forest Service on Tuesday confirmed that it plans to sell online and in person the older horses captured during a recent helicopter roundup at Devils Garden Wild Horse Territory for $1 apiece.
Though the wild horses will be sold with limitations -- including that they cannot be sold to ... Read More
The Bureau of Land Management ended its helicopter roundup at the Silver King Herd Management Area in Nevada with 996 total wild horses captured and 19 dead.
During the final three days of the roundup, Friday-Sunday, 106 wild horses were captured and six died. Of those, three were put down for what BLM ... Read More