BLM removes nearly 2,000 wild horses in Wyoming

Federal wranglers have gathered 1,926 wild horses in a massive roundup that began Oct. 10 in southwest Wyoming. Bureau of Land Management cowboys have returned 270 of the captured animals to the range. Seven horses have died during the ongoing roundup operations in the Adobe Town and Salt Wells Creek herd management areas in Sweetwater and Carbon counties. Last week, the agency expanded its roundup plans and now expects to remove about 2,107 wild horses from overpopulated rangelands in the herd units. The roundup aims to bring down the population level to around 860 wild horses -- the low end of the BLM's appropriate management level. BLM helicopters have been working south of Interstate 80 between highways 191 and 789 and the state line. The aircraft fly below 500 feet to herd the horses into traps. Captured horses are taken to the agency's Rock Springs holding facility...more

Only Nixon could go to China, and apparently only Obama can cull these critters.