RBC | At the Rio Blanco County Stockgrowers business meeting Feb. 3, Bureau of Land Management Field Office Manager Kent Walter announced that a new local wild horse group was being formed. Spokespersons indicated they will hold an “organizational interest meeting” on Saturday, Feb. 17, at the BLM office, 220 E.[Read More…]
Tag: Wild Horses
Meeting for wild horse enthusiasts Feb. 17
MEEKER | We need you! Calling on all wild horse enthusiasts! Join us for an organizational interest meeting to support the Piceance-East Douglas Wild horses and the BLM White River Field Office. Date Saturday Feb. 17 at noon, address 220 E. Market St. Meeker, Colo., at the BLM office. For[Read More…]
Meeting for wild horse enthusiasts Feb. 17
MEEKER | We need you! Calling on all wild horse enthusiasts! Join us for an organizational interest meeting to support the Piceance-East Douglas Wild horses and the BLM White River Field Office. Date Saturday Feb. 17 at noon, address 220 E. Market St. Meeker, Colo., at the BLM office. For[Read More…]
Meeting for wild horse enthusiasts Feb. 17
MEEKER | We need you! Calling on all wild horse enthusiasts! Join us for an organizational interest meeting to support the Piceance-East Douglas Wild horses and the BLM White River Field Office. Date Saturday Feb. 17 at noon, address 220 E. Market St. Meeker, Colo., at the BLM office. For[Read More…]
Wild Horse Advisory Board to meet next week in Grand Junction
RBC | Next week Grand Junction will play host to the Bureau of Land Management’s National Wild Horse and Burro Advisory Board. According to a BLM Press Release the purpose of the meeting is to, “discuss the pressing challenges of wild horse and burro overpopulation on public lands and the[Read More…]
Polis sponsors amendment that would limit wild horse management
RBC | Earlier this summer Congress approved an appropriations bill which would impact the way wild horse and burro populations are managed nationwide. Included in the bill was the Stewart Amendment, proposed by Representative Chris Stewart (R-Utah). The amendment allowed for the humane euthanasia of excess wild horses in an[Read More…]
BLM approves plan to remove wild horses from outside established area
MEEKER | The Bureau of Land Management has announced a final decision to remove up to 100 wild horses this fall from private land and other areas outside the designated Piceance-East Douglas Herd Management Area (HMA) in northwestern Colorado. The decision will also allow future gathers to remove wild horses[Read More…]
BLM seeks public input on wild horses
RBC | As part of its mission to manage public lands for multiple uses, the Bureau of Land Management has released an environmental assessment (EA) for public review that analyzes removing wild horses from areas outside the Piceance-East Douglas Herd Management Area in northwestern Colorado. “The BLM is committed to[Read More…]
Trump budget will impact wild horses
RBC | President Trump’s 2018 budget proposal has created no shortage of controversies, however the budget’s impact on the Wild Horse and Burro Program is receiving support both locally and nationally. The budget includes a $10 million cut to the Wild Horse and Burro program, a program that has been[Read More…]
BLM seeks help monitoring Piceance Creek wild horses
RANGELY | Last weekend the Bureau of Land Management White River Field Office partnered with Friends of the Mustang to host tours of the Piceance/East Douglas Horse Management Area wild horses. The goal of the gathering was to garner interest in creating a group to monitor and potentially apply birth[Read More…]
Stockgrowers hold annual meeting
RBC | The Rio Blanco County Stockgrowers held their annual meeting and banquet last Saturday in Meeker. After quickly discussing group business the stockgrowers got down to one of the primary purposes of the annual meeting, providing an opportunity for local ranchers to hear updates from various county and state[Read More…]
BLM to gather Sand Wash horses in October
RBC | The Bureau of Land Management will begin gathering up to 50 wild horses from the Sand Wash Herd Management Area in October under a decision signed today. Beginning Oct. 21, the BLM will bait-trap wild horses in northwestern Colorado’s Sand Wash Basin in order to administer fertility control treatments[Read More…]
