U.S. to increase wild horse roundups
Severe drought across West limiting food and water
By SCOTT SONNER, Associated Press
Published: August 3, 2021, 10:54pm
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A livestock helicopter pilot rounds up wild horses from the Fox & Lake Herd Management Area in Washoe County, near the town of Empire, Nev., in July 2008. (Associated Press files)
RENO, Nev. — U.S. land managers have begun efforts to capture about 50 percent more wild horses than originally planned this year because of severe drought across the U.S. West — about 6,000 additional animals primarily in Nevada, Oregon and Colorado.
The Bureau of Land Management said the emergency roundups that began Sunday in Oregon and Monday in Nevada concentrate on places where “chronic overpopulation” of the herds “already has stretched the available food and water to its limits.”