During last year’s Sand Wash Basin roundup, BLM Colorado’s Wild Horse and Burro specialist Steve Leonard said the same. A mare and a foal make their way across the open range of the Piceance-East ...

Colorado could take a more proactive and permanent state role in managing the wild horse herds on the Western Slope -- and reducing BLM roundups -- the legislature passes a bill.

Federal land managers are set to begin Colorado’s fifth wild horse helicopter roundup in about three years Wednesday, part of a major effort to remove tens of thousands of mustangs from public ...

Opinion: Colorado’s wild horses need protection from the BLM Under the 1971 Wild Free-Roaming Horses and Burros Act, our land managers are supposed to protect wild horses and burros ...

The BLM oversees four wild horse and burro herd management areas (HMAs) in Colorado, which span approximately 400,000 acres and currently support an estimated 1,212 wild horses, per 2024 BLM data.

Senate Bill 275, which would establish the Colorado Wild Horse Project, won a 5-1 vote from the Senate Agriculture and Natural Resources Committee Thursday.

Public concern around wild horse round-ups prompted Colorado lawmakers and Gov. Jared Polis in 2023 to create a 14-member Colorado Wild Horse Working Group.

Entire Western Colorado wild horse herd removed from range in helicopter roundup By Jennifer Brown The Colorado Sun. Wednesday, Sep 13, 2023 5:30 AM Updated Saturday, Sep. 16, 2023 3:12 PM.

First-of-its-kind bill to protect horses set to pass 02:24. A first-of-its-kind bill is set to be signed into law this Saturday, and it's all about protecting Colorado's wild horses.

In a statement to 9NEWS, BLM Colorado said wild horse populations in the state are currently within appropriate levels in three out of four herd management areas — including Sand Wash Basin ...

This roundup is the third time helicopters have been used to wrangle wild horses in Colorado in the last year. When the BLM removed more than 450 horses from the West Douglas Herd Area last summer, it ...

Largest wild horse roundup in Colorado history could be state’s last Captured horses will join 58,000 others in government system where 145 horses died this spring. News | Jul 29, 2022.