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Green River Wild Horse Tours

View wild horses in their natural environment as well as a host of other wild creatures that make the high desert of Wyoming their home.Visitors can enjoy seeing the magnificent vistas  at every turn....

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Advocacy group questions conditions at wild horse corral

A wild horse advocacy group says conditions at a facility near Rock Springs are inadequate.The Bureau of Land Management removes thousands of wild horses from public lands each year. Some are placed in...

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BLM Seeks To Educate Public With New Horse Sanctuary

The Bureau of Land Management says educating the public is a key reason they’re proposing a wild horse sanctuary near Lander. It would be the second sanctuary of its kind in Wyoming.The BLM regularly...

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BLM Seeks New Horse Contraceptive Methods

The Bureau of Land Management is asking for nearly $3 million to spend on research into birth control for wild horses.Population growth has made it difficult to manage wild horses, and currently the...

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New Wild Horse Sanctuary Proposed In Lander

A wild horse sanctuary has been proposed on a 900-acre ranch outside Lander with hopes of providing a haven for as many as 250 horses.  Bureau of Land Management spokesman Sarah Beckwith says the...

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How America's Original Horse Was Saved By A Wyoming Family

This was almost the year of the thoroughbred horse, with California Chrome's run for the elusive Triple Crown. But here's the story of a smaller, scrappier horse that overcame long odds with the help...

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Checkerboard Horse Roundup Delayed By Lawsuit

A court decision has sided with a wild horse advocacy group, delaying a wild horse roundup that was scheduled to take place last week in an area near Rock Spring’s known as “The Checkerboard.”  In...

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Tenth Circuit Considers New Appeal to Block Wild Horse Roundup

Wild horse advocates continue fighting a planned roundup near the Red Desert.The Bureau of Land Management plans to gather wild horses in a patchwork of public and private lands near Rock Springs...

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Wild Horse Roundup Will Be Allowed To Move Forward

The U.S. tenth circuit court of appeals has overruled wild horse advocates and will allow the roundup of nearly 800 wild horses in southwest Wyoming. The Bureau of Land Management will round up the...

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Wild Horse Advocates Angered By Lawsuit

This week, the state of Wyoming filed suit against the Bureau of Land Management and the Department of the Interior in hopes of further reducing the size of the wild horse herds in the state. The...

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Advocacy Groups Allowed To Intervene In Mustang Lawsuit

A U.S. District Court granted wild horse advocates the right to intervene in a case involving the management of horses on Wyoming land. The State of Wyoming brought the case against the Bureau of Land...

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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....

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Groups 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...

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The 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.

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U.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....

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Contraceptive Could Reduce Taxpayer Costs For Wild Horses

Wild horses cost American taxpayers 77 million dollars a year. But a man who helps shrink wild horse herds with birth control vaccine hopes to reduce those costs.

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Wyoming 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...

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BLM considers reducing wild horse gathers this fall

The Bureau of Land Management says it will likely remove fewer wild horses from the range this fall than in the past. BLM Spokesoman Tom Gorey says that’s because they’re running out of space to put...

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Green River Wild Horse Tours

View wild horses in their natural environment as well as a host of other wild creatures that make the high desert of Wyoming their home. Visitors can enjoy seeing the magnificent vistas at every turn....

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Advocacy group questions conditions at wild horse corral

A wild horse advocacy group says conditions at a facility near Rock Springs are inadequate. The Bureau of Land Management removes thousands of wild horses from public lands each year. Some are placed...

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