BLM gathered 684 wild horses from the Sand Wash Basin Herd Management Area that September — about 70% of the herd that roams close to 158,000 acres in the arid high desert of the northwestern ...

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.

Sand Wash Basin is home to a herd of wild horses, also called mustangs, who live on land owned by the U.S. Department of the Interior Bureau of Land Management (BLM).

Bands of colorful wild horses dot the folded landscape as it gently dips toward the dry wash... Where wild-horse herd management goes right - The Durango Herald × ...

The BLM manages the Sand Wash Basin Herd Area west of Craig for up to 362 wild horses, but the current population exceeds 600, a number that poses a serious risk to the area’s ecological ...

The Bureau of Land Management is investing $625,000 in the Sand Wash Basin Herd Management Area west of Craig to better manage the number of wild horses there through the ...

In Colorado, round-ups were conducted in the Sand Wash Basin and Piceance-East Douglas Herd Management Areas. The sanctuary said the newly created refuge features rolling hills, canyons, ...

The Bureau of Land Management is investing more than $600,000 in the Herd Management Area in the Sand Wash Basin. That’s in north Moffat County. The BLM plans to increase fertility control to better ...

Salt Wells/Adobe Town, Cedar Mountain, Desatoya, and Sand Wash Basin wild horse Herd Management Areas, and the Modoc Forest Service Wild Horse Territory were given test-runs of the new model.

I observed foals struggling to keep up, as helicopter pilots at Sand Wash Basin last summer pushed the herd too fast in 95-degree heat. There is nothing humane about a roundup.

I observed foals struggling to keep up as helicopter pilots at Sand Wash Basin last summer pushed the herd too fast in 95-degree heat. There is nothing humane about a roundup. Horses are prey animals, ...