Salt Wells Creek, Day 15: 106 wild horses captured; total reaches 1,437

 

The Bureau of Land Management on Wednesday used a pair of helicopters to capture 91 adult wild horses and 15 foals in and around the Adobe Town Herd Management Area in Wyoming.

In all, 1,437 wild horses have been captured in helicopter drive trapping at the Salt Wells Creek / Great Divide Basin / Adobe Town heard

October 12th, 2017|

Salt Wells Creek, Day 14: BLM to halt roundup at 1,560 wild horses until court rules

 

A pair of helicopters drove 117 adult wild horses and 27 foals into the trap on Tuesday at the Adobe Town Herd Management Area in Wyoming.

Their capture will bring the total removed from the Salt Wells Creek / Great Divide Basin / Adobe Town heard management areas in southwest Wyoming’s Checkerboard region to 1,331 wild horses

October 11th, 2017|

Judge tells Beaver County, Utah, to hold its horses with mismanagement claims

 

As published by Deseret News

SALT LAKE CITY — Beaver County officials may be aggravated, frustrated and downright angry over the proliferation of wild horses in their area, but that’s not sufficient to bring a case against the federal government on assertions of mismanagement.

That ruling, from U.S. District Judge Clark Waddoups, tossed a lawsuit brought by

October 10th, 2017|

Salt Wells Creek, Day 13: Helicopters trap 66 Wyoming wild horses

 

This post has been updated to include three deaths included in BLM’s daily gather report.

On Sunday, the Bureau of Land Management captured 66 wild horses, including 14 foals, at its ongoing helicopter roundup at the Salt Wells Creek / Great Divide Basin / Adobe Town heard management areas in southwest Wyoming’s Checkerboard region.

Three wild horses were

October 9th, 2017|

Salt Wells Creek, Day 12: 167 wild horses trapped, taken from range

 

On Saturday, the Bureau of Land Management captured 167 wild horses, including 39 foals, at its ongoing helicopter roundup at the Salt Wells Creek / Great Divide Basin / Adobe Town heard management areas in southwest Wyoming’s Checkerboard region.

In all, 1,127 wild horses have been captured since the roundup began. The Bureau of Land Management says

October 8th, 2017|

Salt Wells Creek, Day 11: Tally of wild horses captured now 960; suit filed over exclusion of foals from count

 

On Friday, the Bureau of Land Management captured 44 wild horses, including eight foals, at its ongoing helicopter roundup at the Salt Wells Creek / Great Divide Basin / Adobe Town heard management areas in southwest Wyoming’s Checkerboard region.

In all, 960 wild horses have been captured. The Bureau of Land Management says it is not counting

October 7th, 2017|

Feds target popular Utah wild horse herd for roundup

 

As published by The Salt Lake Tribune

Utah’s most visible wild horse herd may get a lot smaller next year.

The Bureau of Land Management is proposing to remove up to three-fourths of the 450 horses that populate the Onaqui herd about 40 miles southwest of Salt Lake City. The move is needed to reduce effects the

October 6th, 2017|

U.S. court halts BLM’s plan to sterilize herd of Idaho’s wild horses

As published by Horse-Canada.com

A U.S. federal court judge has ruled that the U.S. Bureau of Land Management (BLM) violated environmental laws in planning to sterilize a herd of wild horses in southwestern Idaho.

In January 2016, the American Wild Horse Preservation Campaign, The Cloud Foundation, Return to Freedom, and Virginia Marie Hudson filed a lawsuit in

October 6th, 2017|

Judge: BLM broke law in plan to sterilize Idaho wild horses

 

Return to Freedom is proud to share this victory for wild horses with the American Wild Horse Campaign, The Cloud Foundation and wild horse advocate Virginia Hudson and the public interest law firm of Meyer, Glitzenstein & Eubanks.

As published by The Associated Press

The U.S. Bureau of Land Management violated environmental law in its plan to sterilize

October 6th, 2017|

Salt Wells Creek, Day 10: 152 adult wild horses, 26 foals captured

 

 

With the only two members of the public present positioned about three miles from the trap site, the Bureau of Land Management on Thursday captured 178 wild horses at the Salt Wells Creek Herd Management Area.

They included 152 adult horses, bringing the total number of adults captured to 761 through nine days of helicopter drive

October 6th, 2017|