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The Pryor Mountains Wild Horse Range is a refuge for a historically significant herd of free-roaming mustangs, the Pryor Mountain mustang, feral horses colloquially called "wild horses", [1] located in the Pryor Mountains of Montana and Wyoming in the United States.
The Pryor Mountains feral horse herd is one of the most accessible feral horse herds in the United States. [9] Tourism to the range increased steadily in the mid to late 2000s. [56] The range can be easily accessed via a paved road which parallels Bighorn Canyon, and which provides excellent viewing of the horses. [57]
Passage of the Wild Horse Annie Act did not alleviate the concerns of advocates for free-roaming horses, who continued to lobby for federal rather than state control over these horses. [55] At the same time, ownership of the free-roaming herds was contentious, and ranchers continued to use airplanes to gather them. [ 65 ]
The Pryor Mountains are also home to the Pryor Mountains Wild Horse Range, a protected area that is home to a herd of free-roaming feral horses. [18] This herd was the subject of the 1995 documentary film Cloud: Wild Stallion of the Rockies and its sequel, the 2003 documentary film Cloud's Legacy: The Wild Stallion Returns.
Helicopters have been used for decades to round up wild horses, as seen in this 2005 photo taken in Eureka, Nevada. Credit - Justin Sullivan—Getty Images This article is part of The D.C. Brief ...
Unbranded and unclaimed horses on public lands in the Red Desert are protected by the Wild and Free-Roaming Horses and Burros Act of 1971. The result of the Red Desert's unique ecology is that wildlife is varied. Predators such as coyotes and the occasional mountain lion, swift fox, and kit fox are attracted by the area's mammals for feed.
In a rare legal victory for wild horse advocates, a judge has ruled U.S. land managers failed to adopt a legal herd management plan or conduct the necessary environmental review before 31 mustangs ...
"Herd overpopulation and severe drought conditions have cumulative impacts on public lan. U.S. land managers are planning to round up more than 2,800 wild horses across four Nevada counties ...