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A federal judge in the Mountain West recently ruled in favor of wild horse advocates who sued federal land managers for failing to stick to their own rules.
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The Bureau of Land Management is increasing its efforts to rein in the number of wild horses roaming the Western U.S.
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There are tens of thousands of horses running wild in the Mountain West. The U.S. government mainly uses roundups to keep them from overgrazing public lands. But advocacy groups want more of a focus on fertility control.
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This spring, 145 wild horses died of an equine flu at a federal holding facility in Colorado. A review by an animal welfare team found that the Bureau of Land Management failed to comply with federal policies that might have helped contain the outbreak.
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Read or listen to news headlines for Thursday, June 2, 2022.
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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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Read or listen to the news headlines for Thursday, May 12, 2022.
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The Bureau of Land Management is in the process of capturing and removing more wild horses and burros from the West than ever before, and climate change might factor into its decision.
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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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For decades, ranchers and wild horse advocates have traded barbs. Yet now that Nevada’s wild horse population has reached an all-time high, most agree…