Feds Planning to Gather Whole Herds of Free-Roaming Horses in Checkerboard Region of Wyoming

Feds Planning to Gather Whole Herds of Free-Roaming Horses in Checkerboard Region of Wyoming

The Bureau of Land Management is seeking public comment for its plan to gather and remove more than 3,000 wild horses from a checkerboarded region of Wyoming that covers around 2 million acres. Those roundups would start in July, and they would be the first step toward permanently removing two herds and a portion of a third herd in the southwestern part of the state near Rock Springs. The roundups could be delayed, however, as the legal battle o…