Controversial wild horse round-up may continue in Colorado in 2023
A controversial wild horse capture may continue this year in Colorado, per a recent report from The Daily Sentinel out of Grand Junction.
According to The Daily Sentinel, the BLM may remove up to 68 horses from the Little Book Cliffs range and up to 70 from the Sand Wash Basin range. The move would be intended to bring wild horse populations down to what has been deemed an acceptable level in each area. This adds to more than 600 horses that were removed from wild settings in Colorado in 2021. This prior federally-launched emergency round-up was contested and even resulted in a last-minute appeal from Governor Polis to pause the effort to allow time to consider more human options.
Methods for round-ups include helicopter-based operations and have included bait-trap operations in the past.
Read an in-depth piece about the round-up that might take place this year on The Daily Sentinel website.
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