It’s 10:30 a.m. Friday at the Mesa County Fairgrounds in a covered, but open-sided arena where a brisk, teasing breeze can capture a touch of winter and blow through. Mustangs gathered in July and August from northwestern Colorado’s Piceance Basin, mostly blacks, bays and sorrels, chew on hay in a[Read More…]
Tag: Wild Horses
Letters to the Editor: Sept 22, 2022
EDITOR’S NOTE: While we have not had a formal policy for fact-checking letters, we do reject letters that include obvious falsehoods and libelous statements. Sometimes falsehoods aren’t obvious, and libel is a sticky wicket when it comes to political candidates, but we feel it necessary to alert our readers that[Read More…]
Letters to the Editor: Sept 15, 2022
Obvious bias Dear Editor: Repeating the very worst gaslighting tropes perpetrated by the Bureau of Land Management in its aggressive campaign to eradicate wild horses and burros from their habitats, the recent article, “Romance versus reality,” (Aug. 25, 2022) by Kathleen Kelly, reveals an obvious bias in favor of the[Read More…]
When opinions and information collide
I got an email last week from a gentleman in Oregon lambasting our recent reporting on the Piceance/East Douglas Herd Management Area. Interestingly, the only negative feedback we’ve received is from people who don’t actually live here, but who still have a lot of feelings and opinions about the situation[Read More…]
Piceance Basin horse gather concludes
According to information released by the Bureau of Land Management, the Piceance-East Douglas Herd Management Area wild horse gather has concluded as of Aug. 1, 2022. A total of 867 horses — 319 stallions, 383 mares and 166 foals — were gathered. Of those, 41 stallions have been released, and[Read More…]
ROUND UP …
From the Grand Junction Sentinel: “More than 300 wild horses have been gathered from lands in Rio Blanco County and nearly 200 of them shipped to a Utah holding facility, now that operations to reduce their numbers have ramped up with the start of a helicopter-assisted roundup Friday (pictured above.)[Read More…]
GATHER PLANNED
The Bureau of Land Management and cooperating partners are planning a wild-horse-gather in the Piceance East-Douglas Herd Management Area on July 15. Ongoing bait-trap, range monitoring and related activities leading up to the gather are already underway. Approximately 300 horses will be returned to the range post gather. CORRECTION: The[Read More…]
Sand Wash horses meet Steve Mantle for mustang clinics
RBC I The Sand Wash Basin wild horses are a little like the Beatles–they have a huge following of fans. A number of these beautiful wild horses were gathered as a result of the lack of feed from years of drought. The Meeker Mustang Makeover will pair 20 of these[Read More…]
BLM to remove some Sand Wash wild horses
CRAIG I The Bureau of Land Management has issued a decision to reduce herd numbers within the Sand Wash Basin Herd Management Area to appropriate management levels. The decision allows the BLM to gather wild horses to the low end of the appropriate management level, ranging from 163 to 362,[Read More…]
DAYS GONE BY: August 19
The Meeker Herald 125 years ago • Syrup of Figs: With a better understanding of the transient nature of the many physical ills… There is comfort in the knowledge that so many forms of sickness are not due to any actual disease, but simply to a constipated condition of the[Read More…]
Letter: The West Douglas herd
Dear Editor: The Bureau of Land Management should never be allowed to arbitrarily select wild horse herds for roundup and slaughter. The BLM was created by wealthy ranchers and other power brokers for their own purposes. Initially, it was for the roundup and sale of cattle, followed by the roundup[Read More…]
Emergency wild horse gather of West Douglas Herd
RBC I To protect the health of wild horses and rangelands, the Bureau of Land Management began an emergency wild horse gather on July 26 on the West Douglas Herd Area about 20 miles south of Rangely in Rio Blanco County. The BLM plans to remove the entire estimated population[Read More…]
