Wild horses far outnumbered humans on the Outer Banks a century ago. But beyond legends of long-ago Spanish shipwrecks, no one really knows how they got there. A 1926 article in the National ...

The herd is known as the Dülmener Wildpferde in German, or the wild horses of Duelmen. These days, nearly 400 horses make up the herd that lives on the Merfelder Bruch reserve at Duelmen in ...

It’s all thanks to a man named Dayton O. Hyde. A rancher, naturalist, and environmental pioneer, Hyde founded the sanctuary in 1988 to give unwanted wild horses a second chance.

Advocates say wild horses are blamed for range destruction caused by cattle and sheep. The argument has been ongoing for decades. The CWHWG did not resolve the grazing issue.

Congress, at the behest of the American public, has been able to keep euthanization of healthy excess wild horses and burros at bay for close to 40 years; however, it is still an option under the ...

This post was updated April 22 at 9:23 p.m. It’s easy to lose sight of untouched nature in a city like Los Angeles. Helicopters and airplanes often look like birds, freedom from traffic often ...

Lin Jones of Chicago is photographed in an area where wild horses roam near a former surface mine in Breathitt County, Ky., on Friday, July 11, 2025. ““We enjoy coming down and the horses are ...

Hart Van Denburg/CPR News The Bureau of Land Management held a wild horse auction on May 9-10, 2025, at the Greeley Stampede grounds. There’s about 1,300 wild horses roaming free across Colorado.

People drive to strip mines outside of Jackson to see generations of wild horses roam old mine sites. But others say overpopulation is becoming too big a problem across Eastern Kentucky.

The Colorado House on Wednesday approved the bill 56-8 and moved it to the Senate. About 1,400 wild horses roam Colorado, though the BLM estimates a sustainable population should number about 800.

Wild horses far outnumbered humans on the Outer Banks a century ago. But beyond legends of long-ago Spanish shipwrecks, no one really knows how they got there. A 1926 article in the National ...