The Forest Service’s program is smaller, with 17 so-called territories, mostly in central Nevada, where only about 2,500 wild horses and burros currently reside, according to the agency’s counts.

Nevada rangeland as seen after wild horses passed through the area in Sept. 2021. Email reporter Ben Margiott at bjmargiott@sbgtv.com. Follow @BenMargiott on Twitter and Ben Margiott KRNV on Facebook.

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U.S. land managers are planning to round up more than 2,800 wild horses across four Nevada counties beginning next week in an effort to reduce pressure on the drought-stricken rangeland. The ...

The annual number of car-horse crashes is reliably several dozen per year, with cases reported to the Nevada Agriculture Department totaling 46 in 2020, 27 in 2021, 24 in 2022, and 42 as of late ...

An animal advocacy group is calling for changes to the federal government’s wild horse wrangling operations after a roundup in Nevada left multiple stallions, mares and foals injured or dead.

In Nevada, during the first 10 days of a major mustang roundup, almost twelve wild horses have tragically lost their lives. The deaths include five young foals, four horses with broken necks, and ...

The Bureau of Land Management gathered more than 1,000 wild horses during the 2020 Diamond Complex wild horse helicopter gather in the Diamond Mountain Range north of Eureka.

In Nevada, cattle and wild horses sometimes compete for food because they graze the same land. That creates challenges for some ranchers, but that doesn’t mean they want the horses gone.

A U.S. judge will hear a battle on whether Nevada’s roundup of wild horses should be illegal. Dozens of mustangs died during the controversial practice in a span of one month.