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Sand Wash Basin has three driving areas: Loop A, Loop B and Sevenmile Ridge. Loop A can be an ideal location to find the horses with several dozen seen along County Road 126 and County Road 80.
MOFFAT COUNTY, Colo. — Coming to the Sand Wash Basin to see the wild horses was healing for Meg Frederick, spiritually and physically. "In 2011, I was hit by a drunk driver," Frederick said.
They start as tiny specks of color in the distance. Lighter colored ones are easier to see from afar, their shades of white, gray and tan contrasting the array of brown and green landscape that makes ...
Those horses were added to the nearly 58,000 mustangs in government corrals and pastures across the country as of December. Last week, the first Sand Wash Basin horses went up for auction at a park ...
Wild horses from the Sand Wash Basin will not be delivered to trainers participating in the Meeker Mustang Makeover after an unknown illness has killed 85 horses in the last five days at a government ...
MOFFAT COUNTY, Colo. — After watching 12 days of the round-up of wild horses in and around the Sand Wash Basin, Meg Frederick said she wonders what's next for the animals and Moffat County.
After Gov. Jared Polis on Monday called on the Bureau of Land Management to stop a helicopter horse roundup in the Sand Wash Basin near Craig, another high-profile elected official joined in the ...
A stallion named Picasso, captured on camera in 2018, is among the most well-known mustangs of the Sand Wash Basin herd. He has not been seen since winter of 2019 and is presumed to have died of ...
Likely to have names During the Sand Wash Basin roundups of 2021, Tango and Michaelangelo — the son and grandson of Picasso — were among the horses captured . Meeker Mustang Makeover organizers don’t ...
SAND WASH BASIN — The largest wild horse roundup in Colorado history ended early, in part, because of pressure from Colorado Gov. Jared Polis on the Bureau of Land Management to find a better ...
About 750 wild horses live in the Sand Wash Basin herd management area comprising about 150,000 acres under a federal designation that mandates the land be managed for wild horses and burros.
Likely to have names During the Sand Wash Basin roundups of 2021, Tango and Michaelangelo — the son and grandson of Picasso — were among the horses captured . Meeker Mustang Makeover organizers don’t ...