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

Wild horses are gathered using a bait trap in the Bureau of Land Management – Colorado Sand Wash Basin Herd Management Area ...

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 ...

Sand Wash Basin, one of the four HMAs, serves as an example, having an AML of 163 to 362 wild horses. Simultaneously, the BLM authorizes up to 12,026 sheep and 300 cattle in this same region.

But there are attractions within those 120 miles, including my destination: Sand Wash Basin, about 158,000 acres of sagebrush-clad hills, dry creek beds, and clay buttes, all overseen by the ...

PICEANCE BASIN – The wild mare is wary, her tail arched and nostrils flared, as Cindy Day points a camouflage dart gun out the window of her Jeep Wrangler and peers through the scope. The ...

The Sand Wash Basin is estimated to have 375 horses, in a range where the BLM considers 163-362 to be an appropriate population range. The BLM gathered and removed 684 horses from that range in 2021.

The BLM removed more than 600 horses from the Sand Wash Basin in 2021. Hall said the winter fatalities in the herd last year “would have been exponentially worse if we hadn’t done the gather a ...

“During the Sand Wash roundup, there were a lot of people that said, ‘Oh, well, I could take on X amount of horses,’” she said. “And multiple little sanctuaries started up at that time.” ...

Wild horses on the eastern slopes of the Rocky Mountains in Alberta, Canada, are under threat of attack each spring and summer by grizzly bears. It’s especially true of foals, which are younger ...