The Bureau of Land Management (BLM) is delaying the gather of more than 3,000 feral horses from Wyoming’s “checkerboard lands” for at least another six months.
In a joint motion filed with the U.S. District Court for Wyoming, federal attorneys asked for a delay in legal proceedings until mid-May, raising concerns with funding, staffing and legality. The request was granted by U.S. District Judge Kelly Rankin.
The BLM’s plans to remove the horses on the checkerboard areas where public and private lands meet were originally approved, but then appealed, delayed and declared illegal by the 10th Circuit Court of Appeals.
BLM planned to move forward with its plans anyway but was faced with litigation from wild horse advocacy groups. Now, the gather is unlikely to happen until the end of the fiscal year in September.
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