Banditas Wild Horse Promise has adopted 28 horses from the Sand Wash Basin — including a band of seven that live on DeNeice’s property near Oak Creek, and six that live on another site near Masonville ...

Sand Wash Basin is one of Colorado’s special places, with its majestic wild horses, wide-open range, and important wildlife habitat. However, this 158,000-acre landscape is out-of-balance due to ...

By Shannon Lukens. File photo courtesy Bureau of Land Management. The Bureau of Land Management is using water and bait trips ...

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 ...

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.

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 balance ...

Wild horses are roaming in an area closer to 500,000 acres, however, including on surrounding private land. ... Sand Wash Basin in the far northwestern corner of the state, ...

First-of-its-kind bill to protect horses set to pass 02:24. A first-of-its-kind bill is set to be signed into law this Saturday, and it's all about protecting Colorado's wild horses.

The sun is low on the horizon, casting soft light on the crimson boulders and cliffs of Spring Creek Basin. Bands of colorful wild horses dot the folded landscape as it gently dips toward the dry ...

“During the Sand Wash roundup, there were a lot of people that said, ‘Oh, well, I could take on X amount of horses,’” she said. “And multiple little sanctuaries started up at that time.” ...

In Moffat County, the past lives on, but all eyes are looking toward its potential future, too. David Williams One of the wild horses of Salt Wash Basin, a herd-management area in northwest ...