Round-ups key to healthy herds in Piceance region

RBC I Wild horses are thriving in western Colorado on a vast, 190,000-acre area known as the Piceance-East Douglas Herd Management Area. It’s an area southwest of Meeker in Rio Blanco County where the Bureau of Land Management has been managing a herd of wild horses since 1971, when the Wild Free-Roaming Horse and Burro Act was passed.
BLM manages four such wild horse herd management areas in Colorado. These are areas we manage specifically…