About 200 horses currently residing at the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) Salt Lake Regional Wild Horse and Burro Center in Herriman, Utah, will be relocated according to recommendations made by a team of inspectors who visited the site earlier this month.

On April 9, the Colorado-based wild horse advocacy group The Cloud Foundation released a video alleging that horses at the Harriman facility were being kept in unsanitary and unsafe conditions. The video and a corresponding written report reports prepared by wild horse advocate Lisa Friday alleged that the animals at the facility were kept in muddy, urine-soaked pens, and that some horses experienced difficulty moving through the muck located there.

On April 13, BLM personnel, the Utah State Veterinarian and a veterinarian from the USDA Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service (APHIS) inspected the holding facility. In a report issued on April 20, the inspectors attributed the muddy conditions to excessively wet weather and poor drainage at the site.

As a result the team recommended that 200 animals be relocated to nearby facilities that can accommodate them