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 ...

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.

If you have ever dreamed of owning a wild horse, this weekend might be a great chance for you to live out those dreams.

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 ...

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.

The second summer of a wild horse roundup on Colorado's Western Slope has resulted in the capture of more than 650 horses, but critics of the roundup program allege the ...

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 ...

The U.S. District Court for the District of Colorado’s decision stopped the Bureau of Land Management’s Adoption Incentive Program, which gave people $1,000 per wild horse or burro they adopted.

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.