Two hundred starving and dehydrated wild horses from the Cold Creek herd in Nevada have found respite in the temperate farmland of central Utah, where they are being nursed back to health before possible adoption.
"They were in pretty rough shape," said Gus Warr, director of the Utah Wild Horse and Burro program for the Bureau of Land Management. "They came from 110-degree weather and having no food to this. They think they're in heaven."
"This" is an off-range holding facility south of Gunnison operated by Kerry Despain and his wife, Nannette.
The Despains used to run certified Angus beef cattle and now run mustangs as private contractors for the federal agency. They have 650 head of wild horses from Wyoming, Utah and now Nevada, with a capacity for 1,000. They also house several hundred wild burros in a separate facility to the north. Thirty horses, including some nursing mares, were in such bad shape they had to euthanized. Four orphan foals are being fostered in Nevada.
The survivors were trucked to Utah...
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