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.”
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.
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.
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
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
