The Forest Service’s program is smaller, with 17 so-called territories, mostly in central Nevada, where only about 2,500 wild horses and burros currently reside, according to the agency’s counts.

In the West, there are 73,000 wild horses and burros on public lands, nearly three times the national estimated sustainable threshold of 27,000, according to the report. To control the population ...

Wild horses and burros, considered to be an emblem of the unconquerable American West, have been a permanent fixture of the Great Basin and the Mojave Desert for centuries. They roam Nevada's ...

On September 7, 2024, a video shared by @Jamiellorntzen captured wild horses evacuating from the Davis fire in Nevada, USA. The footage shows a group of wild horses running along Geiger Grade Rd ...

Today Nevada hosts more than 33,000 wild horses, or 57% of BLM horses in the 10 western states. Wild horse populations can double every four years if not managed.

The NNCC is located at 1721 Snyder Avenue, south of Carson City, Nevada. Public viewing begins at 9 a.m., followed by a competitive-bid adoption event conducted by an auctioneer at 10 a.m. The ...

A federal judge has ruled U.S. land managers failed to adopt a legal herd management plan or conduct the necessary environmental review before 31 mustangs died during a roundup in Nevada last summer.

Investigators are looking into the suspected shooting deaths of a group of wild horses in Nevada and the possibility the case could be linked to heated debate over the future of mustangs in the ...

LAS VEGAS (KLAS) — Nevada’s wild horse herds are directly in the crosshairs of the Trump Administration’s “Big Beautiful Bill.” A tiny part of that massive proposal would cut nearly 30 ...

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 ...

Up to 20 saddle-started wild horses, and one burro trained by inmates at NNCC will be up for adoption on Saturday, Feb. 24. Public viewing starts at 9 a.m. and a competitive-bid adoption event ...