Wild horses

KDNK News Director Morgan Neely brings you local and regional news from the Roaring Fork Valley ... and beyond.

Several environmental and wild horse advocacy groups are suing the federal government over a wild horse management plan in Wyoming. The controversy comes as more roundups are being scheduled this year across the Mountain West.

The Bureau of Land Management says horses are unhealthy and causing poor rangeland conditions. Wild-horse advocates who visited the area say the animals are healthy and not to blame for land degradation.

The Bureau of Land Management plans to start another large roundup of wild horses next week. KDNK’s Amy Hadden Marsh has this report.

The Bureau of Land Management removed more than 600 wild horses in early September from inside the Sandwash Basin Herd Management Area, west of Craig,…

The Bureau of Land Management's controversial Sandwash Basin mustang roundup has come to an end except for horses outside the boundaries of the herd…

In what could be the largest wild horse roundup in state history, the Bureau of Land Management began removing over 700 mustangs from the Sandwash Herd…

The late Northern Ute elder Clifford Duncan, friend to many in the Roaring Fork watershed, lived in Roosevelt, UT. KDNK's Amy Hadden Marsh traveled there…

The House Appropriations Committee introduced new language into a budget bill Thursday that would create unprecedented reforms for wild horses and burros.…