Advocates are skeptical of a new $2 million effort to find solutions to the ever-growing population of wild horses on Nevada's ranges and elsewhere. But a Friday vote in Washington, D.C., is a step forward in bringing $11 million to help solve the problem.
The Roberts Mountain Complex covers more than a half-million acres northwest of Eureka, Nevada. It's home to at least 1,161 wild horses a count taken in March that doesn't even include foals born this year.
About 400 wild horses will be rounded up beginning next week just north of Great Basin National Park in east-central Nevada, according to a Bureau of Land Management (BLM) announcement on Tuesday.
The Bureau of Land Management (BLM) plans to begin a wild horse roundup next week in northwest Nevada, about a month after finishing a roundup that produced a lawsuit.
Nevada's Antelope North Complex, one of the largest BLM wild horse gathers in the nation this year, was the scene of one of the West’s greatest debates if and how wild horses should be managed.