News and Noteworthy

South Dakota Wild Horse Emergency
Lantry, S.D.–A team of seven is working long hours in blizzard-like conditions to place 520 at-risk horses in new homes as part of one of the largest horse rescues in U.S. history. Control of the privately owned horses was recently transferred from the International Society for the Protection of Mustangs ... Read More
February 7, 2017AnnieFannie
Sulphur Springs Roundup
The Bureau of Land Management on Saturday February 11,  will begin a helicopter roundup of 600-700 wild horses in and around the Cedar Mountain Herd Management Area in western Utah, weather permitting. The BLM plans to separate out and permanently remove from their home range 200-300 "adoptable age" wild horses. Those not adopted ... Read More
February 7, 2017AnnieFannie
Adobe Town
The Bureau of Land Management began a roundup of wild horses on Sunday as part of a University of Wyoming study of seasonal movements in the Adobe Town Herd Management Area. Radio collars on up to 30 wild mares this month as part of the study. Wild horses will be captured in a ... Read More
February 6, 2017AnnieFannie
Reveille Wild Horse Roundup
The roundup at the Reveille Horse Management Area in Nevada ended on Friday with 68 wild horses were released and one euthanized. Altogether, 151 wild horses (66 studs, 64 mares and 21 mixed weanlings/yearlings) were captured during helicopter drive trapping that began on Jan. 30, according to the Bureau of Land ... Read More
February 6, 2017AnnieFannie
Ruidoso Wild Horses
As published by The New Mexican David Robbins lives 200 paces from a rectangular yellow sign that informs drivers passing through Alto in southeast New Mexico of the presence of wild horses. He says people stop to take pictures of the animals, which he says don’t pose a threat ... Read More
February 3, 2017AnnieFannie
What happened to 1700 wild horses?
The semis would rumble down country roads packed full of wild horses. Truckload after truckload, sometimes 36 horses at a time, all with the same destination: a ranch in the small town of La Jara, Colorado. Records show that for years, the Bureau of Land Management sold and shipped more ... Read More
February 3, 2017AnnieFannie