The latest effort to decrease the wild horse population in Colorado will target the layered beige-and-purple plateaus of Little Book Cliffs, rangeland near Palisade that is home to about 200 mustangs..
The sun is low on the horizon, casting soft light on the crimson boulders and cliffs of Spring Creek Basin. Bands of colorful wild horses dot the folded landscape as it gently dips toward the dry wash.
The Bureau of Land Management Colorado will be hosting an adoption event featuring approximately 30-36 wild horses from the Sand Wash Basin and Piceance East Douglas Herd Management Areas.
PICEANCE BASIN – The wild mare is wary, her tail arched and nostrils flared, as Cindy Day points a camouflage dart gun out the window of her Jeep Wrangler and peers through the scope. The reddish-brow.