The Black Rock Field Office concluded the Calico Complex wild horse gather near Gerlach, Nev. on October 1, 2022.
The purpose of the gather was to reduce overpopulation of wild horses.
The Black Rock Field Office staff and contractor plan to gather approximately 383 wild horses.
Devil’s Garden mustang adoptions began last week. One was a blue roan yearling gelding adopted by Tessa Glaze of Davis Creek, California. She named him Tuffy.
The U.S. Bureau of Land Management has dropped a research effort that would have led to the surgical sterilization of more than 200 wild mares at a facility in Oregon.
Wild-horse advocacy groups are criticizing federal land managers' plans to permanently remove over 750 mustangs from the Nevada range beginning late next month.
The Associated Press reports federal wranglers are gearing up for an unusual wild horse roundup near the Nevada-Utah line where ranchers say U.S.-protected mustangs are knocking down fences and impregnating their mares.
Two wild horses have died in a roundup of mustangs in Utah conducted by the U.S. Bureau of Land Management.
The Bureau of Land Management has approved a pilot project to treat wild horses that reside near the Fish Springs community with fertility control porcine zona pellucide