The Bureau of Land Management on Wednesday concluded its July bait-and-trap operation in the Sand Wash Basin Herd Management ...

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 ...

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 ...

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.

Of the nearly 850 horses that the BLM manage across the 150,000 acres of the Sand Wash, data suggests that the cap for appropriate management levels (AML) is 362, the lowest number being 162.

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.

DeNeice founded Banditas Wild Horse Promise in October 2022 along with her friend Cindy Harrison. The two, who became friends while photographing wild horses in the Sand Wash Basin, say they ...

The Bureau of Land Management continues to gather wild horses at Sand Wash Basin in order to help control the horse population and to remove roughly 50 young horses from the herd. Sand Wash Basin is ...

Rider has been coming the Sand Wash Basin, west of Craig in the northwest corner of the state, for 43 years. "I know the horses personally," she said. "I've seen many of them grow up." ...

The BLM said they released 49 horses back into their home in the Sand Wash Basin. They also introduced three mares into the Spring Creek Basin to enhance the herd's genetic pool.

The horses are being housed at the holding facility following September’s Sand Wash Basin helicopter roundups , which constituted the largest roundup effort in the state’s history, removing 683 wild ...

Chris Maestas, public information officer with the BLM’s Little Snake Field Office in Craig, estimated there are a little more than 250 horses left in the Sand Wash Basin, which is roughly 100 more ...