Helicopter roundups are hugely expensive an inhumane, and because they don’t stabilize the population, they have to be done again and again
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Colorado has 100s more wild horses than the feds say it should. So volunteers are hitting them with fertility darts.
The long-term goal is to control the mustang population on the state’s four herd-management areas with fertility control. But it’s a painstaking process.
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String of 20 thefts at horse ranches across Colorado’s Front Range has stables on alert
In each instance, thieves smashed car windows, stole purses and drove to a nearby Walmart to buy prepaid gift cards
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In “The Sand Pounder,” a girl hears disquieting hints of World War II internment camps
In “The Sand Pounders,” a novel set on the Oregon coast, author M.J. Evans combines her love of horses with the drama of a nation headed to war.
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Opinion: Outlaw the slaughter of horses for human food
The horsemeat industry is inhumane to horses, and potentially dangerous for people.
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FDA: Colorado-based firm’s alfalfa cubes may kill horses; recall announced
Manzanola Feeds warns that certain batches of alfalfa cubes may contain bacteria that cause botulism, a fatal paralytic disease
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Can skijoring, one of Colorado’s favorite extreme sports, go mainstream?
Story by Olivia Prentzel and Photography by Hugh Carey, The Colorado Sun SILVERTON — On a freezing day in late February, a racer clicks into his skis along Notorious Blair Street, ready to race. He tightly grips a cotton rope that’s tethered to a cowboy’s saddle, anticipating a sharp jolt before the horse sets off […]
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Federal government is planning more wild horse roundups this year than ever before
By Scott Sonner, The Associated Press RENO, Nev. — The U.S. government plans to capture more wild horses on federal lands this year than ever before, drawing sharp criticism from mustang advocates who hoped the Biden administration would curtail widespread gathers of thousands of horses annually across the American West. Bureau of Land Management Director […]
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It took volunteers 8 days to wrangle 6 abandoned horses from Colorado’s rugged backcountry near Dolores
DOLORES – While many were ringing in the New Year, a team of volunteers in Dolores and Montezuma counties were engaged in an eight-day effort to save horses abandoned in the backcountry of southwest Colorado. The Dolores County Sheriff’s office received a call Jan. 1 from a remote subdivision near Groundhog Reservoir reporting that six […]
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Feinstein wants probe into how many wild horses end up in slaughterhouses as Western drought forces roundups
By Scott Sonner, The Associated Press RENO, Nev. — Sen. Dianne Feinstein is calling on federal land managers to conduct an investigation to determine how many of the wild horses captured on public lands in the U.S. West end up at slaughterhouses. The California Democrat also wants the federal Bureau of Land Management to reevaluate […]