Judge Denies Motion to Dismiss Pryor Mustang Herd Case

A federal court judge sided with wild horse advocates earlier this month when he declined to dismiss their lawsuit opposing a U.S. Forest Service (USFS) plan to construct a fence at the Custer National Forest, which spans from South Dakota to Montana. The fence would border the Pryor Mountain Wild Horse Range, located near Lovell, Wyo. The suit, filed in July by The Cloud Foundation, Front Range Equine Rescue, and photographer and author Carol Walker, alleges that the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) new Herd Area Management Plan and the USFS Plan to construct the two-mile-long fence violates the Free Roaming Wild Horse and Burro Act of 1971 because it denies mustangs access to traditional grazing areas...more