1,373 wild horses and 356 wild burros will be gathered. BLM says the gathers are conducted to prevent undue or unnecessary degradation to the landscape caused by excess wild horses and burros.

The Wild Horse and Burro Protection Act would end the use of helicopters in roundups of wild horses and burros. Helicopter roundups (which are euphemistically termed “gathers” by the federal ...

The BLM requires all its staff and contractors associated with wild horse and burro gathers to complete Comprehensive Animal ...

“As part of a sustained fertility control program, the BLM supports humane methods of sterilizing some wild horses and burros as a method of slowing population growth and reducing the need for gathers ...

Wild horses and burros are to be managed according to the Wild and Free-Roaming Horse & Burro Act of 1971, which not only specifies where wild horses and burros can occupy public lands but that they ...

There, the foal was swallowed up in a $76 million bureaucracy that captures, feeds and stockpiles more horses than any other in the nation. Wild horses in captivity now outnumber those in the wild.