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Horses on the Pryor Mountains Wild Horse Range in Montana. The BLM distinguishes between "herd areas" (HA) where feral horse and burro herds existed at the time of the passage of the Wild and Free-Roaming Horses and Burros Act of 1971, and "Herd Management Areas" (HMA) where the land is currently managed for the benefit of horses and burros, though "as a component" of public lands, part of ...
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 BLM Wyoming estimates the wild horse population was just shy of 4000 horses (3,985 claimed) current in 2010. They claim the state population management level is in a range of 2,490 to 3,725 horses, thus they gathered 1,804 horses, removed 1,238, and used fertility control on 224 mares before releasing the mares back into the wild.
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 ]
Their activism resulted in the Hunting Wild Horses and Burros on Public Lands Act in 1959. However, the 1959 Act did not resolve all the advocate's concerns, leading to the passage of the Wild and Free-Roaming Horses and Burros Act in 1971. The Bureau of Land Management (BLM) and US Forest Service manage these herds. Although the BLM struggled ...
CHEYENNE — Wyoming Horse Racing hosted community members and elected officials Friday for a ribbon-cutting ceremony to open the new $25 million Horse Palace at Swan Ranch. Though there’s no ...
Henry Mountains bison herd [3] Utah: Utah Division of Wildlife Resources, Bureau of Land Management: 400 Hot Springs State Park [3] Wyoming: Wyoming Division of State Parks and Historic Sites: 15 House Rock State Wildlife Area [3] Arizona: Arizona Game and Fish Department: Innoko National Wildlife Refuge: Alaska: U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service ...
The BLM manages free-roaming horses and burros on public lands in ten western states. [84] Though they are feral, the agency is obligated to protect them under the Wild and Free-Roaming Horses and Burros Act of 1971 (WFRHBA). [84] As the horses have few natural predators, populations have grown substantially. [84]