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Driving to work one day in 1950, Johnston was following a truck overcrowded with horses and saw blood dripping from the back. She followed it to a slaughterhouse, [3] and upon learning they were free-roaming horses gathered from private and state lands in Nevada's Virginia Range, she took action to ensure more humane treatment of free-roaming horses when captured and transported.
Morin, Paula (2006) Honest Horses: Wild Horses of the Great Basin. Reno: University of Nevada Press; Nimmo, D. G.; Miller, K. K. (2007) Ecological and human dimensions of management of feral horses in Australia: A review. Wildlife Research, 34, 408–417; Text of Wild Free-Roaming Horse and Burro Act of 1971
The Bureau of Land Management reported in November that it has removed nearly 70,000 wild horses and burros and treated nearly 5,600 with fertility control since 2018 as part of its plan to reduce ...
Three HMAs are dedicated solely to the protection of feral horses: the Pryor Mountains Wild Horse Range in Montana, the Little Book Cliffs Wild Horse Range in Colorado and the Nevada Wild Horse Range in Nevada. Another HMA is dedicated to feral burros, the Marietta Wild Burro Range, also in Nevada. [5]
A judge has asked federal land managers to explain why they should be allowed to continue capturing more than 2,500 wild horses in northeastern Nevada — a roundup opponents say is illegal and ...
A federal judge is allowing a government roundup of wild horses in northern Nevada. In an order issued today, U.S. District Judge Larry R. Hicks lifted an injunction that blocked the U.S. Bureau ...
Some horses in Nevada originated from escaped Comstock Lode miners, [51] other horses across the west escaped from various settlers or ranch horses that had been turned out to forage when not in use. [52] Some were bred up for use as cavalry horses. [53] A few populations retained centuries-old Spanish horse genetics. [38]
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 ...