Nearly a third of the wild horses rounded up south of Rangely last year have died from respiratory illness at a Bureau of Land Management holding facility in Cañon City,
More than a quarter of the wild horses the Bureau of Land Management removed near the Utah state line south of Rangely and northwest of Grand Junction last year have
The Bureau of Land Management suspects Equine Influenza Virus H3N8, a virus common among wild and domestic horses, has caused the deaths of 94 horses since April 23 at a Cañon City holding facility.
The investigation is continuing to unfold into the deaths of more than 100 wild horses housed in a Colorado holding pen. Officials probing an influenza outbreak say pneumonia in the animals may be complicated by inhalation of wildfire smoke and dust.