The conflict between ranchers and wild horse advocates has been simmering for decades, beginning in the 1950s when Velma Bronn Johnston mobilized the public after learning that mustangs were being ...

Federal land managers have removed all 122 mustangs from rugged western Colorado rangeland known as the West Douglas herd area, inflaming tensions with wild horse advocates who called the ...

Fun fact: in Australia, wild horses are known as “brumbies.” Just as in America, there are various populations of wild horses that roam the countryside, descendants of animals that were lost ...

Wild horse populations alone decreased by 8.7 percent between 2024 and 2025, to 53,797 from 58,952, according to bureau data.

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 gather of wild horses on the Little Book Cliffs Wild Horse Range near De Beque is scheduled to begin on or near Sept. 11. The BLM also provides updated statuses for the gather on its website.

Government cites overpopulation, says wild horses are starving on the range. Jan. 30, 2010— -- Gerlach, Nev., a sleepy little town an hour and a half north of Reno, turns into the third ...

Today, a coalition of wild horse advocates, conservationists, and academics filed a notice of appeal with the Tenth Circuit Court of Appeals in response to a lower court decision greenlighting a ...

Inspired Life ‘Horse detective’ adopts wild mustangs, reunites them with herds “When they’re rounded up, a lot of them slip through the cracks and go to unloving homes,” said Clare ...

As a non-native species, their effect on the wild areas they inhabit is a complex one, but they have also been here for hundreds of years and are as much a part of the landscape as people.