BLM Plans to Relocate 1,500 Wyoming Wild Horses

BLM's Controversial Plan to Relocate Wyoming Wild HorsesBLM's Controversial Plan to Relocate Wyoming Wild Horses

ROCK SPRINGS, Wyo. — The Bureau of Land Management (BLM) has released a draft environmental assessment for a proposed relocation of about 1,500 wild horses. This plan aims to adjust the populations in the Salt Wells Creek, Adobe Town, and Great Divide Basin herd management areas to their low appropriate management levels.

The Rocket-Miner reports that the assessment, released on Wednesday, calls for reducing populations in these areas. The overall population of the areas, 2,836 wild horses, exceeds the required management level of 1,560 animals.

The BLM plans to relocate 513 of the 1,123 wild horses in the Adobe Town area, 725 of the 976 horses from the Salt Wells Creek area, and 322 of the 737 animals in the Great Divide Basin area. After capturing 1,560 animals, 1,276 horses would remain in the management areas.

The public has 30 days to submit comments on the assessment.

Editor's note: If the Interior Department has its way, these wild horses will be "relocated" all right..... to Mexico for slaughter.

Originally posted by Billings Gazette.

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