More than 130 demonstrators showed up at the Nevada Capitol to protest wild-horse roundups.

The critics were calling attention on Saturday to the U.S. Bureau of Land Management’s handling of the recent Reno-area roundup.

One protester, Pete DeCarli from Pilot Hill, Calif., said public lands belong to the horses. He called the helicopter-assisted roundups tragic.

Weeks ago, the U.S. Bureau of Land Management rounded up more than 1,900 of about 2,500 horses from the Calico Mountains north of Reno