The Bureau of Land Management has captured 226 wild horses and six burros and eight animals have died during the first three days of a helicopter roundup preceding a planned sterilization study of about 100 wild mares.
BLM intends to remove about 652 wild ... Read More
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The president on Sept. 28 signed a Continuing Resolution that will fund the government until Dec. 7. For the time being, language from the Fiscal Year 2018 appropriations package remains in place for wild horse management and horse slaughter.
The short-term extension will mean prohibitions against killing healthy unadopted wild horses ... Read More
The Bureau of Land Management has captured 852 wild horses and put down 21 during the ongoing emergency helicopter roundup at the Owyhee Complex in Nevada.
Through Wednesday, 365 mares, 332 studs and 155 foals had been captured, with 35 studs and 25 treated mares returned to the range, according ... Read More
The Bureau of Land Management captured 303 wild horses and three died during an "emergency" helicopter roundup at the Eagle Herd Management Area in Lincoln County, Nevada, which ended on Friday.
A total of 137 mares, 92 studs and 74 foals were captured during the roundup, which began on Sept. ... Read More
The U.S. Forest Service plans to start a monthlong helicopter roundup of 1,000 wild horses from the Devil's Garden Plateau Wild Horse Territory, located about seven miles north of Alturas, Calif., on Oct. 9.
The Forest Service says it is conducting the removal "to help address impacts ... Read More
Rep. Dina Titus, D-Nevada, and Rep. Vern Buchanan, R-Florida, on Friday sent a letter to Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke raising concerns about whether the Bureau of Land Management's changes to its wild horse and burro sales policy have created, in their words, "a pipeline to slaughter."
The sale policy now allows ... Read More