The Bureau of Land Management on Tuesday captured 104 wild horses on the first day of a helicopter roundup at the Muddy Creek Herd Management Area in Utah. One foal was put down after suffering a broken leg when kicked by a stud while captured horses were being loaded onto ... Read More
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The Bureau of Land Management captured 371 wild horses from Aug. 8-Sept. 8 from the Boone Spring area of the Spruce-Pequop Herd Management Area in northeast Nevada.
The agency conducted the "emergency" bait-and-trap roundup due to what it said was a lack of water and forage.
Nine wild horses died during the ... Read More
The Bureau of Land Management will conduct an "emergency" helicopter roundup of 300 wild horses starting on or about Thursday in and around the northern portion of the Eagle Herd Management Area in Lincoln County, Nevada.
BLM says there is insufficient water to support the wild horses on the 660,610-acre ... Read More
As published by Yahoo News
WASHINGTON — The Department of Interior is quietly preparing to offer hundreds of thousands of acres of public land for leasing to energy companies, a move critics have charged is being undertaken with minimal public input and little consideration for ecological and cultural preservation.
According to ... Read More
As published by Statesman Journal
The Bureau of Land Management aims to use a helicopter to capture wild horses in Central Oregon, then perform a rare surgery on 100 animals, in which a mare’s ovaries will be removed by crushing and pulling them out with a looped-chain instrument.
This study/experiment planned ... Read More
As published by FairWarning.org
Wild horses have long been an evocative symbol of the American West. When wild horses and burros were threatened with extinction nearly 50 years ago, Congress rode to the rescue with a law providing broad protections.
Horse numbers have soared, however, ... Read More