The Bureau of Land Management (BLM) plans to gather feral horses in southwest Wyoming’s White Mountain Herd Management Area (HMA) in mid-August.
The HMA’s appropriate management level (AML) is 205-300 horses, but the current population level is closer to 800 head.
“Chronic wild horse overpopulation in fragile ecosystems endangers overall land health, with the possibility of permanent, irrecoverable damage to important resources and impacts to other wildlife populations,” the agency said.
BLM plans to gather approximately 586 horses to bring the HMA down to a lower AML. The decision comes following public input earlier this year. Removed horses will be transported to the Wheatland Off-Range Corral or Rock Springs Wild Horse Holding Facility and readied for adoption through the BLM’s Adoption and Sales programs.
