Federal officials are rounding up some wild horses on the Western Slope beginning Wednesday. The Bureau of Land Management (BLM) said helicopters will be used to gather up to 130 horses from the ...

MESA COUNTY, Colo. — Federal officials are rounding up some wild horses on the Western Slope beginning Wednesday. The Bureau of Land Management (BLM) said helicopters will be used to gather up ...

Colorado could take a more proactive and permanent state role in managing the wild horse herds on the Western Slope -- and reducing BLM roundups -- the legislature passes a bill.

The operation ends with 41 wild horses rounded up on July 19. Colorado’s last? This roundup is the third time helicopters have been used to wrangle wild horses in Colorado in the last year. When the ...

Colorado wild horses can be seen at the Wild Horse Refuge, ... the estimated population of 2,116 wild horses in Colorado has dwindled to a total of 1,322 — or roughly a 38 percent decrease.

Opinion: Colorado’s wild horses need protection from the BLM Under the 1971 Wild Free-Roaming Horses and Burros Act, our land managers are supposed to protect wild horses and burros.

The public land, nearly 200,000 acres dotted with piñon and juniper trees, can handle 235 horses at maximum, according to the BLM. Wild horses are roaming in an area closer to 500,000 acres ...

The past is within easy reach in Colorado’s Moffat County, where wild horses roam and canyons conceal dinosaur tracks. But all eyes are looking toward the future, too.

It took federal land managers about a month to capture 18 wild horses by hiding in the sagebrush not far from a corral baited with food and fresh water. In a week, a helicopter buzzing across the ...

This time he captured the spirit of Colorado’s wild horse population. Just because. New York Times best-selling author puts $5.9M Greenwood Village home on market ...

This roundup is the third time helicopters have been used to wrangle wild horses in Colorado in the last year. When the BLM removed more than 450 horses from the West Douglas Herd Area last summer, it ...