The BLM hopes to gather all wild horses residing at the Beaty Butte HMA and subsequently return 100 studs and fertility control-treated mares to the range.
The BLM gathered and removed 801 horses from the Nevada Wild Horse Range, in Nye County.
Two horses are receiving rehabilitative care after being taken from an illegal slaughter farm in Florida.
As the Department of the Interior considers moving the new BLM headquarters from Washington, D.C. to a Western site, advocates believe the move could have benefits for wild horses under the agency’s management.
Awareness about unwanted horses has grown significantly over the past 20 years, and the horse industry has taken strides to find solutions. But there’s still work to do.
The National Park Service is welcoming a new Assateague Pony foal born to N9BM-J (known as “Giggles”) on Aug. 17.
At the end of 2017, 120 Shackleford Banks horses roamed Cape Lookout National Seashore, in North Carolina.
An Assateague pony struck by a vehicle on Aug. 6 was euthanized Aug. 15, officials from the National Park Services’ Assateague Island National Seashore have confirmed.
Respondents reported their equine veterinarians as their most trusted sources for vaccination and deworming information.
Officials have long been concerned with how to manage the estimated 48,000 unbranded feral Navajo Nation horses residing on the 18 million-acre reservation in Arizona, New Mexico, and Utah.
Park officials said the 2-year-old stallion is lame and has a swollen left hind leg and a laceration on his rib cage but is moving around and foraging with little difficulty. They will continue to monitor his condition.
It is the first time in 28 years that Smithsonian Conservation Biology Institute has four Przewalski’s horse foals at one time. The foals are thriving and living in a herd with their mothers.
The BLM said the gather is necessary as there is not enough water to support the number of horses in the area.
The agency plans to remove about 149 wild horses and administer fertility control to horses returning to the range.
Attendees will have the opportunity to view approximately 200 mares roaming on approximately 3,875 acres at the Chickasaw Ranch on Aug. 11.
The BLM will remove up to 60 wild horses from the Little Book Cliffs Wild Horse Range, near Grand Junction, Colorado.
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