BLM approves wild horse roundup

Another wild horse roundup has been approved for Wyoming rangelands as federal officials continue to work to bring wild horse numbers down to acceptable levels. Bureau of Land Management managers issued a Record of Decision on Monday approving the wild horse gathering operations from the remote Fifteenmile Herd Management Area near Worland. The Fifteenmile HMA is located approximately 30 miles northwest of Worland, within Washakie, Big Horn and Park counties in north central Wyoming. The area includes rolling hills, rugged canyons and badlands, and a portion of the Bobcat Draw Wilderness Area. Plans call for capturing the wild horses from the approximately 83,000-acre Fifteenmile HMA as part of a population-control strategy that aims to manage the area in a range from 70 to 160 mature horses. Officials said the operations involve capturing about 280 wild horses, returning about 70 mature animals to the HMA, and removing the remainder of the horses...read more