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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]
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.
From the least impactful to the most, here are 25 bits of vanishing America. Although free roaming horses, or as some people call Top 25 things vanishing from America: #8 -- Wild horses
One of the country's most promiscuous stallions now has more to brag about than just the sheer volume of his conquests. He's residing at a ranch that listed last week for a whopping $175 million.
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 Bureau of Land Management said the area is unsuited for wild horses because most of the food and water sources are on private land. Federal roundup set to remove 122 wild horses in northwest ...
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.