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‘Defiant Five’ win temporary freedom in Wyoming wild horse roundup
By Angus M. Thuermer, Jr., Post Register
October 23, 2021
SUPERIOR, Wyo. — Their manes and tails flying in the air, the wild horses trot, canter and gallop ahead of the buzzing, weaving helicopter.
The band of five dodges and jukes as the helicopter darts to and fro trying to drive them toward two hundred-yard long jute fences set in a “V.” At the V’s far end stands the trap corral where their freedom to roam, and impact, the range would end.
Federal contraceptive program to control US wild horse numbers a step closer
By Horse Talk NZ
October 23, 2021
Federal lawmakers are on track to dedicate funding in the next financial year for a humane fertility control program for wild horses.
On Monday, the US Senate Appropriations Committee included critical directives in the Interior appropriations bill, which will cover the next fiscal year, for the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) to administer reversible fertility control vaccines to wild horses.
In July, House appropriators likewise set aside significant funding to scale up the use of fertility control vaccines.
Federal contraceptive program to control US wild horse numbers a step closer
Horse Talk NZ
October 23, 2021
Federal lawmakers are on track to dedicate funding in the next financial year for a humane fertility control program for wild horses.
On Monday, the US Senate Appropriations Committee included critical directives in the Interior appropriations bill, which will cover the next fiscal year, for the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) to administer reversible fertility control vaccines to wild horses.
In July, House appropriators likewise set aside significant funding to scale up the use of fertility control vaccines.
The BLM is in process of rounding up about half of the state's wild horses in Sweetwater County
By Kamila Kudelska, Wyoming Public Radio
October 21, 2021
Former President Donald Trump announced a goal to decrease the amount of western wild horses by the end of the fiscal year 2022. The Bureau of Land Management (BLM) is following this plan by capturing roughly 4,300 wild horses living in southwestern Wyoming.
Record wild horse roundup is latest development in yearslong resource dispute
By Nicole Pollack, Casper Star Tribune
October 18, 2021
Nearly two weeks into a wild horse roundup that will continue for months, the Bureau of Land Management has gathered a tiny fraction of the animals it plans to remove from Wyoming public lands.
Of the roughly 4,300 horses the BLM expects to capture, approximately 3,500 will not be returned to the range. The agency began operations on Oct. 7 and had gathered 285 — 138 mares, 63 foals and 84 stallions — as of Sunday. Four fatalities were recorded during that period.
Where did the wild horses removed from Sand Wash Basin go? A Colorado state prison.
By Jennifer Brown, The Colorado Sun
October 15, 2021
CAÑON CITY — Hundreds of horses, noses to the dusty ground, nibbled on alfalfa hay spread in thin rows across a wide pasture.
In one direction, the Wet Mountains jutted toward a bluebird sky. On the other, guard towers and tops of Colorado state penitentiary buildings, some encircled with loops of razor-tipped wire, loomed above the landscape.
Wild horse advocates cry foul on enormous roundup, removal
By Angus M. Thuermer Jr., Casper Star Tribune
October 10, 2021
Federal contract wranglers plan to round up 4,300 wild horses in southwest Wyoming — permanently removing about 70% of them — in an undertaking that culminates years of conflicts among land and wildlife managers, ranchers and horse advocates.
Wild horse advocates cry foul on cusp of enormous roundup, removal
By Angus M. Thuermer, Jr., WyoFile
October 5, 2021
Federal contract wranglers plan to round up 4,300 wild horses in southwest Wyoming — permanently removing about 70% of them — starting Thursday in an undertaking that culminates years of conflicts among land and wildlife managers, ranchers and horse advocates.
Group aims to slash wild horse and burro population by 75%
By Dana Gentry, Nevada Current
October 4, 2021
A coalition with an environmentally-friendly name is fronting for ranching and hunting interests out to accelerate the capture and confinement of Nevada’s wild horses and burros, according to critics.
Groups frustrated with BLM management of horses
By Leo Wolfson Cody Enterprise, Wyoming News Exchange, Gillette News Record
September 26, 2021
CODY — When it comes to wild horses and burros, their advocates and opponents mostly agree on one thing: neither is satisfied with the BLM’s management of the species.
As of 2015, 220,000 horses and burros had been adopted since the inception of the program.
