US Agency Seeks Proposals to Keep Wild Horses in Pastures

The U.S. Bureau of Land Management is actively seeking landowners in a dozen states to submit proposals for renting out pastures to house wild horses. This initiative aims to find additional homes for potentially thousands of wild horses that have been rounded up from Western rangelands.

The federal agency currently maintains contracts with landowners to keep 31,000 wild horses on approximately 20 off-range pastures located in Iowa, Kansas, Montana, Nebraska, Oklahoma, and South Dakota. These pastures vary in size, ranging from 1,000 to 35,000 acres, with an average size of 20,000 acres, according to the Bureau of Land Management Wild Horse and Burro Program.

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