Conversation on Wyoming’s wild horses

As part of Wyoming Public Media’s ‘I Respectfully Disagree’ series, four panelists discussed issues surrounding wild horses in the state on a Facebook live talk hosted by Caitlin Tan. Tan is the Energy and Natural Resources reporter based in Sublette County, Wyoming. Stakeholders spoke for an hour about topics like herd management, fertility control and…

BLM responsible for increasing deaths of captive wild horses

Eleven horses die at Wheatland corral; BLM says strangles impacting about half of 2,750 animals By Brendan LaChance | Oil City News | 12th May 2022 CASPER, Wyo. — Eleven horses have died of Streptococcus equi, also called strangles or equine distemper, at the Wheatland Off-Range Corral that houses about 2,750 horses and burros, according…

Wild horse wipeout still on the move

"There are a lot of videos and photos of Red Desert free roaming wild horses available online, which is a good thing because very soon none of us will be seeing them live and in person anymore," writes Wyoming News. "The Bureau of Land Management is attempting the largest horse roundup in its history –…

BLM to round up half of Wyoming’s wild horses

For those of you who are devoted to saving America's wild horses living on public lands, you may have heard this news. It is devastating in the wake of the Sand Wash Basin tragedy. This may be equally tragic if not more so. Nicole Pollack, reporting for The Casper Star Tribune, writes: The Bureau of…

BLM targets 5 wild horse herds for destruction in Wyoming

Carol Walker of Wild Hoofbeats reports: The Bureau of Land Management (BLM) has released a Scoping Document with a 30 day public comment period on 5 of the largest wild horse herds in Wyoming: Adobe Town, Salt Wells Creek, Great Divide Basin, White Mountain and Little Colorado. I have been visiting, observing and photographing the…

Friends of Animals’ court battle saves more than 2,000 of Wyoming’s wild horses

PRESS RELEASE — (March 20, 2017)  Friends of Animals (FoA) just obtained another remarkable victory for wild horses—the organization challenged one of the largest wild horse roundups in Wyoming’s Red Desert Complex and won. In 2016, the U.S. Bureau of Land Management (BLM) authorized the roundup and removal of 2,096 wild horses from the Lost…

Wyoming wild horse roundup argued before federal judge

Cross-posted from the Jackson Hole News & Guide LARAMIE (AP) — Attorneys argued Monday over whether a wild horse roundup on western Wyoming rangelands last year complied with or violated a federal law that carries different requirements for such roundups depending on whether the horses are on federal or private land. The roundup of 1,263…

BLM Delays Wyoming Wild Horse Roundup As Preliminary Injunction Motion Filed

PRESS RELEASE Rock Springs, WY (August 11, 2014) — The Bureau of Land Management (BLM) has agreed to delay the proposed roundup of more than 800 wild horses in Wyoming to allow the court time to rule on a motion for a temporary restraining order and/or preliminary injunction filed late Friday by the American Wild…

BLM poised to eradicate last large wild horse herds in Wyoming

US Congressman, Raul Grijalva (D-AZ), supports listing of wild horses as endangered species THE CLOUD FOUNDATION PRESS RELEASE ROCK SPRINGS, WY (July 23, 2014) – The Cloud Foundation (TCF) with 280,000 followers, as well as numerous wild horse and animal advocacy groups, condemns the Bureau of Land Management’s scheduled roundup which will eliminate all wild…

Free Roaming Wyoming horses rounded up by BLM and sold to Canadian Slaughterhouse

No public comment period – no transparency – no opportunity for horse rescue organizations to save horses from a terrible fate. THE CLOUD FOUNDATION PRESS RELEASE COLORADO SPRINGS, CO. (March 31, 2014) - On March 24, The Cloud Foundation received an anonymous tip that BLM had rounded up and removed 41 free-roaming horses from public…