BLM Postpones Wild Horse Roundup To Conduct Environmental Survey

SALT LAKE CITY — The U.S. Bureau of Land Management has postponed plans to round up about 185 wild horses from a western Utah herd.

The agency had planned the roundup for Jan. 15, but it's been rescheduled for July so the BLM can conduct an environmental analysis before proceeding. Officials also said snowy conditions would have made the roundup more difficult.

The herd roams the remote Confusion Mountains about 90 miles northwest of Delta.

The agency had said the roundup was needed to reduce the herd to its target size, between 60 and 115 horses. It currently has about 285.

The roundup was initially scheduled for the summer of 2008 but has been delayed several times.

Horses that are gathered will be sold, adopted or taken to BLM's long-term holding facilities.

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[CanAmFam]

12:47 PM on 02/15/2010

This reads like a BLM press release. I am shocked HuffPost isn't digging deeper and reporting on the atrocities to horses that have happened during this year's roundups, which are being widely reported elsewhere and that all animal welfare groups are protesting against: "Wild horses forced into a Stamped of Death": http://www.lasvegasnow.com/Global/story.asp?S=11979541
Death Toll now at 78: http://www.blm.gov/nv/st/en/fo/wfo/blm_programs/wild_horses_and_burros/calico_mountains_complex/gather_activity_updates.html


Horses are literally running themselves into the ground, collapsing, unable to get up; mares aborting from the stress, and foals running their feet off (literally.. hooves falling off), then being left to suffer for days in holding pens. And why? So that cattle farmers can graze their cattle for next to nothing, on the public lands where the horses were formerly running free. Another example of corporate greed taking precedent!