Wild Horses

CHEYENNE, Wyo. (AP) — The U.S. Bureau of Land Management will offer two horses that were captured from wild herds in Wyoming for adoption by silent auction at Cheyenne Frontier Days this month. The horses will be available for public viewing in a corral across from the General Land Office in Wild Horse Gulch, located east of the fairgrounds...

Over population of wild horses on public lands coupled with declining adoptions has Bureau of Land Management officials trying new ideas. Ecosanctuaries are public-private idea still in the early stages and BLM managers are soliciting for proposals from private landowners...

LARAMIE, Wyo. (AP) — The U.S. Bureau of Land Management in Rawlins will take public comments for 30 days before starting an environmental analysis of a proposed wild horse sanctuary about 30 miles west of Laramie. The owners of the 4,000-acre Deerwood Ranch have applied to provide long-term care for up to 400 wild horses gathered from Western public rangelands...

Interested in offering long-term free-roaming pasture space to, maybe, 2000 wild horses? The Bureau of Land Management currently holds in long and short facilities over 45,000 animals and is now taking bids in hopes of finding pasture for those in short term holding...

CHEYENNE, Wyo. (AP) — A federal judge is allowing wild horse advocacy groups to intervene in a lawsuit in which livestock operators are trying force the removal of wild horses from private lands in an area of roughly 2 million acres in southwestern Wyoming...