Wild horses and burros are protected under a 1971 law that established the right for these unbranded animals to live on public land, often referred to as the range. But the Bureau of Land ...

MEDORA, N.D. (KFYR) - A staple at Theodore Roosevelt National Park is the wild horses. However, park officials and wild horse advocates disagree on how the park should manage its herd. Park ...

Presently, over 60,000 wild horses are being kept in holding facilities under crowded, unhealthy conditions totally foreign to their former life on the plains, at a cost of $76 million.

A judge in Atlanta commended a lawsuit seeking to end the "suffering" of the wild horses on Georgia's Cumberland Island but said she does not have the power to remove them.

Federal wildlife officials say herd-thinning operations like the one in northwest Colorado are necessary because there are too many wild horses on public lands across the West — 60,000 horses ...

Wild horses stand in a group along a hiking trail in Theodore Roosevelt National Park on Saturday, Oct. 21, 2023, near Medora, N.D. U.S. Sen. John Hoeven, R-N.D., said Thursday, April 25, 2024, he ...

The Bureau of Land Management removed 31 wild horses from the West Douglas Herd Area in its first day of operations Friday. The agency plans to remove all of the 122 animals there.

A showdown over the fate of wild horses in Wyoming and beyond is looming at the 10th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals. Mustang advocates are challenging a recent lower court decision they say will ...

Wild horses graze on a hillside by the boundary fence of Theodore Roosevelt National Park near Medora, N.D., on Saturday, May 20, 2023. About 200 horses roam the park's South Unit.

BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) -- The beloved wild horses that roam freely in North Dakota's Theodore Roosevelt National Park could be removed under a National Park Service proposal that worries advocates ...