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Wild horse roundup draws criticism from animal rights activists
KUNC | By Brittany Cronin
Wild horses photographed in 2013 in the McCullough Peaks Wild Horse Herd Management Area in Wyoming.
The Bureau of Land Management is rounding up hundreds of wild horses in the northwestern part of the state this summer in what is projected to be the largest horse roundup in state history.
There are more wild horses in the region than the land can sustain, according to the bureau, but critics are concerned about the animals’ health during the roundup.
Documents show BLM wild horses sold to slaughter, advocates say
By Scott Streater | 07/26/2022 1:30 PM EDT
There’s more trouble on the horizon for the Bureau of Land Management’s embattled wild horse and burro adoption incentive program.
Federal officials ignore Colorado governor’s plea to stop capturing wild horses, plan Western Slope roundup this week
By Jennifer Brown, Colorado Sun
(June 15, 2022) Federal officials will begin capturing hundreds of mustangs roaming in far northwestern Colorado this week, dismissing a request from Gov. Jared Polis to halt roundups while the state and U.S. Bureau of Land Management find a “more humane” option for managing wild horses.
The federal agency’s announcement of its next roundup — in the Piceance-East Douglas rangeland outside Meeker — comes after 145 wild horses died in an equine flu outbreak at a Cañon City holding facility.
BLM hosting adoption event for horses rounded up from Sand Wash Basin
By Blayke Roznowski, The Denver Channel
March 1, 2022
DENVER — The Bureau of Land Management is holding a wild horse and burro adoption event this week, which will include horses rounded up from the Sand Wash Basin in the late summer last year.
3 Out of 4 Americans Oppose Inhumane Helicopter Roundups of Wild Horses
PR Newswire, Canadian Insider
March 3, 2022
WASHINGTON, March 3, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- New polling released today by the American Wild Horse Campaign (AWHC) finds 74 percent of American voters, regardless of political affiliation, oppose helicopter roundups of wild horses and burros, a common yet outdated, inhumane, and taxpayer funded population management tool used by the Bureau of Land Management (BLM).
Reno horses vie with homebuilders for habitat
By Dana Gentry, Nevada Current
February 16, 2022
They are the majestic mustangs that spurred the creation of America’s Wild Horse and Burro Act. Now, Reno’s herds are increasingly succumbing to traffic collisions as housing developments expand into wildlife territory.
Almost half of Wyoming's wild horses were rounded up in the latest BLM gather in the Red Desert
By Caitlin Tan, Wyoming Public Radio
February 18, 2022
Wyoming’s Bureau of Land Management recently wrapped up one of its largest wild horse roundups in the southwest part of the state, and while controversial, many who live in the area said it is necessary.
About 80 percent of wild horses in the Sweetwater County area were gathered between last fall and this January.
Letter to the editor: BLM horse roundups cost taxpayers millions
By Grace Kuhn special to Billings Gazette
February 20, 2022
Maggie Buttrell says she’s a big fan of federally funded wild horse roundups, but I have to wonder why.
Roundups cost U.S. taxpayers millions of dollars each year. In fact, the U.S. Bureau of Land Management’s current roundup plan will cost an estimated $1 billion over the next five years.
These millions go to special interests in the livestock industry. Federal records show that the BLM has spent:
• $53.2 million for helicopter roundup and bait-trapping operations since 2006.
COMMENTARY: BLM must cease helicopter wild horse roundups
By Grace Kuhn special to Las Vegas Review-Journal
February 19, 2022
The U.S. Bureau of Land Management is fooling fewer people.
The agency, which is charged with looking after our nation’s wild horses, claims that its frequent roundups of these animals in Nevada and across the West are necessary and humane. But more and more members of Congress aren’t buying it.
Nevada Rep. Dina Titus this month introduced a bill that would ban the dangerous and traumatizing helicopter roundups that the BLM uses to remove mustangs from the range.
More than 2K wild horses removed, 26 die in Nevada roundup, group says
By Kristen DeSilva, Fox5
February 15, 2022
LAS VEGAS (FOX5) -- The Bureau of Land Management says more than 2,000 wild horses were removed from Nevada's public lands in the latest roundup.
The Pancake Complex horse gather took place about 80 miles northeast of Tonopah or 30 miles west of Ely on Feb. 14. The BLM said 2,054 "excess" wild horses were removed.
Six studs and 18 previously treated mares were released. The BLM said the horses were given a "population suppression vaccine."
