Wild Horse Adoption Event In Rock Springs Feb. 27-28
The Bureau of Land Management will reopen the wild horse facility in Rock Springs at the end of this month with an adoption event. The agency is looking for people able to give wild horses a good home....
View ArticleGroups Worry About BLM Pryor Mountain Wild Horse Plan
Protestors say the BLM office in Montana is trying to wipe out the state’s last herd of wild horses. That herd lives in the Pryor Mountains in Montana and Wyoming. The group marched into the Billings...
View ArticleThe Modern West 5: Wild Horses—A Western Icon In Trouble?
There's no cowboy without his trusty steed, so this month, we explore the role of horses in the Modern West.
View ArticleU.S. Inspector General Confirms Rancher Sold Wild Horses To Slaughter
For years, wild horse advocates have called for the prosecution of a Colorado rancher who bought more than 1700 wild horses in 2012 and sold them to slaughterhouses in Mexico. Last week, the U.S....
View ArticleContraceptive Could Reduce Taxpayer Costs For Wild Horses
Wild horses cost American taxpayers $77 million a year. But a man who helps shrink wild horse herds with birth control vaccine hopes to reduce those costs. A wild horse herd lives on BLM land in the...
View ArticleWyoming And Oregon To Study Effects Of Wild Horse Sterilization
At a House Energy and Natural Resources Committee meeting in Washington last week, Republican lawmakers criticized the Bureau of Land Management for its plans to research new sterilization methods for...
View Article600 Wild Horses To Be Rounded Up In Checkerboard Area
For the second time in two years, the Bureau of Land Management will round up all the wild horses that roam a controversial area in southwest Wyoming. Known as “the Checkerboard,” it’s an area where...
View ArticleMustang Days To Feature All Wild Horse Show
As part of the Wyoming State Fair in Douglas this weekend, the Bureau of Land Management will host a horse show with all wild horses. The seventh annual Mustang Days aims to show the benefits of...
View ArticleCourt Decision Expected On Checkerboard Wild Horse Roundup
On Monday, arguments were presented against the U.S. Bureau of Land Management's removal of wild horses from a herd of management area in what's known as the Checkerboard area near Rock Springs. Wild...
View ArticleBLM Will Not Euthanize Wild Horses
The Bureau of Land Management announced it will not accept the recommendation from their National Advisory Board to euthanize the upwards of 46,000 wild horses. The recommendation was followed by a...
View ArticleWild Horses Migrate, But Where Do They Go?
A new study will use GPS transmitters to track the movements of wild horses in the Adobe Town Herd Management area, southwest of Rock Springs. Researchers from the University of Wyoming and the Bureau...
View ArticleCourt Rules BLM Broke Law In Roundup
The Tenth Circuit Court of Appeals in Denver ruled on Friday that the Bureau of Land Management broke the law during a wild horse round up in 2014 in an area southeast of Rock Springs known as the...
View ArticleBLM Caught In Middle Of Wild Horse Conflicts
It’s an unseasonably warm November day in Wyoming, and a small group of Bureau of Land Management employees is out in the Checkerboard, just east of Rock Springs. Like a lot of Wyoming, it’s arid with...
View ArticleBLM Seeks Public Input For Wild Horse Gather
The Bureau of Land Management is asking for public comment on a proposed removal of wild horses in the Checkerboard area near Rock Springs. In a press release, the Bureau of Land Management said they...
View ArticleWhat are your thoughts on the proposed removal of wild horses near Rock Springs?
The BLM is asking for input on the proposed removal of wild horses near Rock Springs. What are your thoughts? WPM/NPR Community Discussion Rules By contributing your comment, you consent to the...
View ArticleBLM Asking For Public Comment On Wild Horse Gather
The Bureau of Land Management is seeking public input on a proposed wild horse gather in southwest Wyoming — they want to hear what people think about a recent environmental assessment. A wild horse...
View ArticleWild Horse And Burro Advisory Board Meeting Canceled After Year Of Delays
The citizen board for the Bureau of Land Management’s Wild Horse and Burro Program will not meet this month as planned. The board gives advice to the BLM about how to manage the species on federal...
View ArticleBLM Gives Congress New Wild Horse Plan
The Bureau of Land Management has presented Congress with a controversial new plan to manage wild horses.
View ArticleCritics Say New Rule Could Send Wild Horses To The Slaughterhouse
Critics Say New Rule Could Send Wild Horses To The Slaughterhouse When outsiders think of the American West, they probably think of mustangs. The horses’ ancestors were brought to the New World by...
View ArticleJudge Stops Roundup Of Pryor Mountain Wild Horses
A federal judge stopped a planned roundup of Pryor Mountain wild horses on the Wyoming-Montana border, arguing it could harm the genetic viability of the wild horses.
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