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BLM solicits help in expanding humane wild horse fertility control

May 12, 2022

A wild horse advocate says the move marks “a significant shift towards humane on-range management of wild horses and away from cruel, costly helicopter roundups.”

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BLM to round up hundreds of wild horses, burros in Southern Nevada

May 10, 2022

The Bureau of Land Management has decided to round up hundreds of wild horses and burros in Southern Nevada, the department announced on Tuesday.

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Equine influenza behind outbreak that's killed 95 wild horses corralled in Colorado, BLM says

Apr 28, 2022

The Canon City facility southwest of Colorado Springs, which is currently holding roughly 2,500 horses, has been under a voluntary quarantine since Monday. Horses rounded up last fall in the West Douglas area near the Utah border have been the hardest hit.

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Feds Rounding Up Thousands of Wild Horses Threatened By Drought

Aug 27, 2021

An adoption program could spare 6,000 wild horses suffering extreme drought. Opponents fear some will meet a worse fate at slaughterhouses.

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Lawmakers, Advocates Push To End BLM Wild Horse Adoption Incentives

Jun 23, 2021

In 2019, the Bureau of Land Management started paying people up to $1,000 to adopt wild horses being kept in holding pens.

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The Debate On What Is Best For Nevada's Wild Horses

Apr 27, 2021

Wild horses are a symbol of America and the West.

They are a source of pride for Nevadans, as the state is home to about half of the country's wild horse and burro population.

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'Wildish' Podcast Explores Complicated Web Of Wild Horse Management In the West

Sep 21, 2020

Believe it or not, one of the most controversial debates in the West isn’t about conservative and liberal politics; it’s about wild horses.  

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3 Large Corrals Approved For Western US Wild Horse Roundups

Aug 22, 2020

RENO, Nev. (AP) — The federal Bureau of Land Management has approved construction of three corrals to hold more than 8,000 wild horses captured on federal rangeland.

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John L. Smith On Nevada's Wild Horses

Aug 04, 2020

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Over 1,700 Wild Horses In Nevada And Utah Removed, Relocated

Feb 27, 2020
LAS VEGAS  — Land management authorities have completed removing more than a thousand wild horses in Nevada and Utah.
 
The Las Vegas Review-Journal reported that the Bureau of Land Management gathered 1,716 horses from herd management areas in Lincoln County in Nevada and I
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Push To Accelerate Mustang Captures Draws Fire In Congress

Dec 12, 2019
Two House committee chairmen are trying to put the brakes on money for a new Trump administration proposal to accelerate the capture of wild horses across the West.
 
Nevada Rep. Dina Titus's high-desert state is home to about half the mustangs.
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As Populations Of Wild Horses Soar, So Do Tensions Over Management

Nov 07, 2019

The fight over wild horses in the West has put ranchers, animal advocates, conservationists, the Bureau of Land Management and others at odds with one another for decades. 

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Dems In Congress Demand Update On Interior Wild Horse Plans

Oct 28, 2019

RENO, Nev.

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Official: Solving Wild Horse Problem Will Take $5B, 15 Years

Oct 23, 2019

RENO, Nev. (AP) — The acting head of the U.S. Bureau of Land Management says it will take $5 billion and 15 years to get an overpopulation of wild horses under control.

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Controversial Wild Horse Plan Headed To Senate Floor

Sep 30, 2019

RENO, Nev. (AP) — Congress is closer to approving a contentious wild horse initiative backed by national animal welfare groups and the livestock industry but condemned by leaders of the largest and oldest coalition of mustang advocates in the West.

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BLM Plans To Remove Wild Horses From Northern Nevada Herds

Jul 31, 2019

The Bureau of Land Management announced it will begin gathering and removing wild horses in Northern Nevada.

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14 Wild Horses Euthanized During Northern Nevada Roundup

Jul 18, 2019

Federal land managers say 14 wild horses were euthanized during a roundup in northeastern Nevada.

The roundup at the Triple B complex north of Ely gathered more than 800 horses to be removed and shipped to holding facilities.

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Lethal Measures Off Table For Controlling Wild Horse Herds

Jul 11, 2019

BOISE, Idaho (AP) — The Trump administration will not pursue lethal measures such as euthanasia or selling horses for slaughter to deal with what officials say is an ecological and fiscal crisis caused by too many wild horses on rangelands in the U.S. West.

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Feds Aim To Corral 800 Wild Horses From Eastern Nevada Range

Jul 09, 2019

ELY, Nev. (AP) — Federal officials say they plan to begin rounding up as many as 800 wild horses from vast range in eastern Nevada to reduce what land managers call damaging overpopulation.

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Some Horse Advocates Buck At New Plan To Save Wild Mustangs

Apr 25, 2019
RENO, Nev.
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Nevada Revives Wild Horse Birth Control Program

Apr 22, 2019

RENO, Nev. (AP) — Nevada horse advocates are looking forward to getting back to their work in the field after the state agreed to resume a birth control project for a herd of free-roaming mustangs near Reno.

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Nevada Resumes Fertility Control For Free-Roaming Horses

Apr 10, 2019

RENO, Nev. (AP) — The state of Nevada is resuming a fertility control project for a herd of free-roaming horses south and east of Reno in a new agreement with the same mustang protection group that filed suit last year when the state pulled out of a similar deal.

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Wanted: More Pastures For West's Overpopulated Wild Horses

Mar 11, 2019
CHEYENNE, Wyo.
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BLM To Roundup Wild Horses In Eastern Nevada

Nov 27, 2018

The Bureau of Land Management will commence with a controversial roundup of wild horses in eastern Nevada.

The roundup is expected to last up to 21 days and is meant to reduce the population of wild horses northwest of Caliente from more than 1,200 to less than 250.

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BLM Completes Another Big Wild Horse Roundup In Nevada

Oct 10, 2018

ELKO, Nev. (AP) — The U.S. Bureau of Land Management has completed its second big wild horse roundup in northern Nevada in recent weeks, removing 887 mustangs from the range in Elko County.

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